"Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience."

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"Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience."

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"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."

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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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"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."

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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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"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."

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"As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions."

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"It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity."

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"I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans."

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"I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else."

James Lipton, American Educator

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"I don't care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it's all about time and money eventually."

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"That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy."

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"It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go."

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"We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it's important to give it our best shot."

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"I'm living in L.A. but my heart's in Vancouver."

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"My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands."

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"Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am."

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"And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years."

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