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"Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do."
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"It's an acting job - acting natural."
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"Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene."
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"When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma."
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"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."
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"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."
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"I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it."
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"Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning."
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"And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that."
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"I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."
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"I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you."
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"Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent."
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"The big secret in acting is listening to people."
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"Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do."
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"I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945."
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"This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country."
Age

"I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda."
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"What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world? Will I ever be satisfied? Can't I ever just rest?"
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"Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere."
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"But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie."
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"Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down."
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