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"When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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"It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting."
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"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."
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"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."
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"I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do."
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"I always wanted to go into acting."
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"Acting is what happens on the way."
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"In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching."
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"I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop."
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"One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer."
Family
"Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work."
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"The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent."
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"But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible."
Love
"In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me."
England
"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."
Work
"I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate."
Gain
"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."
Actor
"I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable."
Love
"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."
Film
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