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"I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable."
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"Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day."
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"Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real."
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"You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction."
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"In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material."
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"I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards."
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"Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter."
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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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"There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors."
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"Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting."
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"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."
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"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."
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"Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often."
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"Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country."
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"I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in."
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"Awards don't really mean much."
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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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"If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession."
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"Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together."
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"I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most."
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