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"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."
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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."
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"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."
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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
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"I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important."
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"I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better."
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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is."
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"To be an actor you have to be a child."
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"I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV."
News
"I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular."
Popular
"Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently."
Shakespeare
"Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it."
Heart
"I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject."
Success
"If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln."
Actor
"I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest."
Thought
"I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft."
Pretty
"Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too."
First
"I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent."
Talent
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