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"I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times."
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"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."
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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
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"Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on."
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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."
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"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."
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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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"We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that."
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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 eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it."
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"It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting."
Acting
"I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I've never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman - she's really my only idol. It's going to be a big stretch - certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile."
People
"Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst."
Business
"I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am."
Acting
"It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar."
Winning
"I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home."
Home
"I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times."
Actor
"We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly."
Work
"I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable."
Experience
"Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked."
Performance
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