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"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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"In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity."

"They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more."

"You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now."

"It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially."

"A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy."
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