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"I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you."
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"It's an acting job - acting natural."
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"Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene."
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"When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma."
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"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."
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"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."
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"I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it."
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"Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning."
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"And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that."
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"I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."
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"I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you."
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"No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants."
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"I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you."
Acting

"You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are."
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"People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do."
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"I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image."
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"I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people."
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"Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does."
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"I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all."
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"I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society."
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"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."
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