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"I do believe all actors are smart."
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"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."
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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that."
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"It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom."
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"All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor."
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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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"And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor."
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"You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor."
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"Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part."
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"I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor."
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"I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me."
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"I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit."
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"You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do."
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"It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world."
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"I think it's good to meet smart people and talk."
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"Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person."
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"For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated."
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"Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights."
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"If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive."
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"Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character."
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