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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."
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"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."
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"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."
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"There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me."
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"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."
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"I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors."
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"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."
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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover."
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"An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman."
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"A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do."
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"People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing."
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"At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country."
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"My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do."
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"I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion."
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"Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie."
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"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."
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"Acting is way of making yourself exist."
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"I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me."
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"I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level."
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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."
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