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"I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor."
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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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"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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"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."
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"Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four."
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"Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole."
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"When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world."
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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."
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"I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor."
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"My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom."
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"When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die."
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"I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things."
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"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."
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"I want to make smart television."
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"I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing."
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"People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me."
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"People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success."
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"I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since."
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