"I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting."

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"I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting."

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William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love."

Love

"He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you."

Love

"It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it."

Fame

"Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character."

People

"I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work."

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"I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground."

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"I was on Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared."

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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."

"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."

"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."

"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."

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

"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."

"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting."

"I'm acting for the pleasure of it."

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"Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love."

"He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you."

"It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it."

"Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character."

"I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work."

"I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground."

"I was on Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared."