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"One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer."
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"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."
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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"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."
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"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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"All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor."
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"For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared."
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"And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor."
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"Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part."
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"I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor."
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"The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow."
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"OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality."
Judaism
"Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing."
Patriotism
"You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really."
Mistake
"I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way."
Life
"And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important."
Family
"I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are."
People
"But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event."
Society
"One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer."
Actor
"Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish."
Father
"Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg."
Democracy
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