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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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"The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years."
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"Directors, like actors, get typecast."
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"What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me."
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"Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors."
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"To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle."
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"Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."
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"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."
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"The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny."
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"And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring."
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"And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow."
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"I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about."
Baby

"I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really."
Being

"I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact."
Fact

"Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment."
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"I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that."
Money

"Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred."
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"I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!"
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