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"Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor."
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"Secretary Rumsfeld used to represent parts of our district in the 1960s. I think that he and his team have done a masterful job in defeating Iraqi forces quickly and decisively."
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"It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too."

"I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots."
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"It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity."

"There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance."

"One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer."

"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."

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

"I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child."

"I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me."
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