"I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost."

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"So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really."

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"I was dissatisfied just being 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."

"The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years."

"Directors, like actors, get typecast."

"To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle."

"Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."

"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."

"Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to."

"Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really."

"I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody."

"I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans."

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"I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time."

"I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines."

"I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day."

"You gotta make the movie you want to make."

"I would rather just do the things I want to do."

"I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that."

"As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting."

"So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really."

"And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do."

"I was dissatisfied just being an actor."