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"Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained."

"When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way."

"It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone."

"From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman."

"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."

"I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me."

"It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying."

"The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity."
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"In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons."

"Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers."

"Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority."

"Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights."

"What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world."

"Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things."

"Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement."
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