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"There's so much crap talked about acting."
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"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."
"My acting career helped pull me through the rough times."
"Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college."
"When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that."
"But you're right, I did think about acting more and then decided against it."
"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."
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"It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity."
"There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance."
"One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer."
"When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him."
"The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that."
"I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me."
"Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries."
"I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable."
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