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"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
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"For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared."
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"The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years."
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"To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle."
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"Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to."
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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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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."
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"Actors always have opinions."
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"Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be."
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"In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical."
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"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."
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"Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work."
Work
"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"
Motivational
"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
Poor
"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."
Life
"There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever."
Winning
"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
Pleasure
"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it."
Film
"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."
God
"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."
Journalism
"A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake."
Movies
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