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"These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig."
Man
"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
Work
"Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film."
Life
"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."
Nothing
"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
"Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime."
Media
"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."
God
"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
Pleasure
"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."
Journalism
"Self-plagiarism is style."
Self
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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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Personal Development
"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."
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Personal Development
"I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point."
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Personal Development
"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."
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Personal Development
"Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb."
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Personal Development
"I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor."
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Personal Development
"You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain."
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Personal Development
"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."
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