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"As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors."
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"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."
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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."
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"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."
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"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."
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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that."
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"I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that."
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"It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it."
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"There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them."
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"As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors."
Actor
"This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors."
Actor
"I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act."
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"An actor is only merchandise."
Actor
"You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many."
People
"Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me."
Culture
"That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions."
Mother
"In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero."
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