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"I don't honestly think people know what acting is."
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"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."

"It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties."

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"I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate."

"John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London."

"I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other."

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"I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me."

"If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance."

"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."

"I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child."

"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."
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