"I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them."

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"I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them."

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"I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops."

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"As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary."

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"I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was."

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"Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood."

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"Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of."

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"I've been a very lucky actor."

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"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives."

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"I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality."

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"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."

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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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"We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away."

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"If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from."

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"I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'"

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"We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there."

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"There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out."

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"You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted."

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"I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up."

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"I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics."

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"If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life."

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"One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well."

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