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"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!"
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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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"But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting."
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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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"I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky."
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"Acting is what happens on the way."
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"I always try to find something I admire about every character I play."
Character
"It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity."
Actor
"As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving."
Possibility
"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
"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."
Music
"I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things."
People
"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."
Work
"I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job."
Job
"I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour."
Love
"When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him."
Man
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