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"The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story."
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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."
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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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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."
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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
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"Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four."
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"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."
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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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"Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors."
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"I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by."
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"I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story."
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"A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that."
Doubt

"It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams."
Dream

"There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance."
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"And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television."
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"I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling."
Feelings

"We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama."
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"I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes."
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"You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses."
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"I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports."
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