"I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none."

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"I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none."

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"For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared."

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"The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years."

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"Directors, like actors, get typecast."

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"To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle."

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"Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."

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"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."

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"Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to."

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"Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really."

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"I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody."

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"I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans."

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"I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time."

Love

"There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive."

People

"My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think."

Decision

"I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way."

People

"Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of."

Time

"It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work."

Time

"I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better."

Business

"It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares."

Idea

"I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut."

Happiness

"When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense."

Environment