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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it."
Care
"Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway."
People
"I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you."
Character
"I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day."
Day
"Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease."
Character
"I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything."
Actor
"If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it."
Character
"I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it."
Limit
"I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else."
Time
"Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news."
Film
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