"To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new."

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"To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new."

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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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"But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed."

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"I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing."

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"I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show."

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"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

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"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."

Mike Figgis, English Director

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"The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained."

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"Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well."

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"As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience."

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"No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic."

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"There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic."

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"I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility."

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"I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place."

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"I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion."

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"It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even."

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"I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it."

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"Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it."

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"Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios."

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"Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild."

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"My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere."

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