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"I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium."
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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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"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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"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."
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"A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills."
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"I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director."
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"I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!"
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"I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality."
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"For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together."
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"I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors."
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"You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere."
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"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
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"I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously."
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"What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye."
Eye
"I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal."
Love
"I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility."
Help
"I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul."
Experience
"Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming."
Father
"I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium."
Actor
"We all need a firm sense of identity."
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"My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!"
Woman
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