"What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself."

Actor, Risk, Worth

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"What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself."

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"You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap."

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"I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor."

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"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams."

Dream

"A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away."

Now

"Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same."

Success

"My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that."

Drama

"I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head."

Guitar

"I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything."

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"I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years."

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"I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly."

Interest

"Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line."

American

"So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine."

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