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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

"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."

"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."

"A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea."

"But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor."
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"How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles."

"I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out."

"When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk."

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."
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