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"I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!"
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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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"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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"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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"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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"It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom."
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"I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor."
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"My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!"
Woman
"I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid."
Abuse
"We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world."
Decision
"I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really."
Being
"Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices."
People
"Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney."
People
"I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are."
Father
"I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal."
Love
"Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can."
Actor
"I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!"
Actor
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