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"There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance."
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."

"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."

"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."

"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."

"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."

"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."
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"I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate."

"John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London."

"Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries."

"Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder."

"I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child."

"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."

"In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me."
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