"I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force."

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"I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force."

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"I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops."

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"As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary."

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"I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was."

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"Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood."

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"Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of."

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"I've been a very lucky actor."

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"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives."

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"I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality."

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"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."

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"Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything."

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"The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that."

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"Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can."

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"It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work."

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"There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself."

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"When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth."

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"I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it."

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"I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions."

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"I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful."

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