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"My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!"
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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."

"Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investigation, and what I said this weekend is not anything new."

"I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great."

"You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?"

"The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center."
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"What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it."

"There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another."

"I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged."

"They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed."

"Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination."

"I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it."

"It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do."

"It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night."

"I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination."
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