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"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour."
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"There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well."

"Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries."

"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"

"Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't."

"When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour."

"I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child."

"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."

"There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance."

"Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder."
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