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"I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off."
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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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"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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"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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"I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in."
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"All the real work is done in the rehearsal period."
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"I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career."
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"The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself."
Time
"I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off."
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"At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working."
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"I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is."
People
"The process of building a part doesn't really stop."
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"John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept."
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"John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off."
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