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"It does make you a better director and a better actor."
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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."
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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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"A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea."
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"As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot."
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"James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect."
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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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"Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well."
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"I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting."
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"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."
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"You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination."
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"In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld."
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"In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback."
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"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."
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"It does make you a better director and a better actor."
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"Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published."
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"Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt."
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"Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week."
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"I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams."
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"Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me."
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