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"The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional."
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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."
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"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."
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"All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor."
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