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"You have to be selfish to be an actor."
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"Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger."
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"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."
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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."
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"Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors."
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"I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor."
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"Actors always have opinions."
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"I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour."
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"I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security."
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"In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play."
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"We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare."
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"I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this."
Management
"A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts."
Men
"It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like."
People
"You have to be selfish to be an actor."
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"If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay."
Dance
"I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor."
Actor
"When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out."
Work
"A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?"
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"Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to."
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