"Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused."

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"Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused."

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"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."

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"Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really."

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"I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody."

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"If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character."

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"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."

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