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"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"
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"Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter."
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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 pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing."
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"This particular film highlights Ben and Owen's strengths which is that they are great comedic actors with tremendous chemistry and they do a really good job."
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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."
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"Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can."
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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."
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"The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well."
Clothes
"I'd love to try my hand at something else."
Love
"To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all."
Want
"I do think I'm a character actor."
Character
"I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast."
Humor
"The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think."
People
"I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year."
Mother
"Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real."
People
"I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky."
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"I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends."
Age
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