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"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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"It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do."

"When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld."

"While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well."

"Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot."

"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."
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"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 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."

"I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language."

"As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving."

"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"

"The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that."

"The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent."

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

"I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew."
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