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Ian McDiarmid

"That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance."

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"That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance."

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"Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or kept from, players or played."

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"All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches - that's what will be left at the end of it all."

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"The costs of keeping secrets include our growing isolation due to fear of detection and the ways we shut down inside to avoid feeling the effects of our behavior. We can never afford to be truly seen and known-even by ourselves."

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"A funeral is no place for secrets."

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"I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets."

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"It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet."

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"Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets."

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Asa Don Brown

"This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you."

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Asa Don Brown

"So this is what you look like when you're keeping a giant secret from me - exactly the same as usual."

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"But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink."

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"If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3."
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"And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me."
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"For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one."
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"I'm the blackest villain of all time."
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"It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right."
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"When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to the point. It was nice to see him after a long time, and we met in a hotel room."
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"Consistency is very important when you're making films."
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"But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang."
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"There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double."
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"I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play."
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