"Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that."

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"Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that."

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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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"But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed."

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"I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show."

Barry Levinson, American Director

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"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

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"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."

Mike Figgis, English Director

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"No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic."

John Leeson, British Actor

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"Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews."

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"An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare."

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"I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be."

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"I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda."

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"Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice."

Family

"I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that."

Science

"Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family."

Family

"I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies."

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"So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling."

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"People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors."

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"I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills."

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"I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him."

Father