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"All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job."

"I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it."

"The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws."

"It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases."

"It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me."

"At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was."
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"There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word."

"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."

"As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving."

"When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him."

"I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew."

"I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had."

"I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable."

"The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that."
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