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"Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman."
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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."

"It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom."

"All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor."

"Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained."

"The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process."
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"My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me."

"I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree."

"In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression."

"It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing."

"It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role."
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