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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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"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."
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"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."
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"There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me."
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"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."
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"I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors."
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"The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover."
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"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."
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"A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered."
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"Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor."
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"An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make."
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"I took some time out for life."
Life
"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'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'm big on research."
Research
"I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny."
Funny
"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
"I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy."
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"I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy."
Love
"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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"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."
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