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"Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child."
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"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

"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."

"There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them."

"In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk."

"You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors."

"It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom."
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"I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood."

"When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel."

"Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are."

"I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter."

"My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!"

"I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good."
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