"Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything."

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"Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything."

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"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."

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"But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed."

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"I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing."

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"I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show."

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"I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him."

Life

"We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men."

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"If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it."

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"We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing."

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"I do them all for the money, I really do."

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"I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it."

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Car