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"What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it."
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"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."
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"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."
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"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."
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"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."
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"As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions."
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"It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity."
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"I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans."
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"I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else."
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"Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood."
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"Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead."
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"I took some time out for life."
Life
"I'm big on research."
Research
"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens."
News
"I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy."
Love
"You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world."
Sense
"What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it."
Actor
"I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny."
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"I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy."
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"Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy."
Work
"Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!"
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