"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."

Acting, Months

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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."

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"Movies make you immortal and ageless."

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"People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate."

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