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"Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose."
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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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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."
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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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"I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important."
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"I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better."
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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is."
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"To be an actor you have to be a child."
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"Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple."
Business
"So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered."
Impression
"Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world."
Change
"I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes."
People
"I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it."
Intelligence
"If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding."
Job
"My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work."
Work
"I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well."
People
"Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note."
Character
"A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time."
Time
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