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"I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?"
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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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"Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories."
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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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"I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream."
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"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."
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"If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did."
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"When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long."
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"For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life."
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"If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero."
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"When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name."
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"Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama."
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"I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people."
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"From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman."
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"Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?"
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"No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around."
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