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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

"A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea."

"The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story."

"Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well."

"I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting."

"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."
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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!"

"But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man."

"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."

"And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring."

"Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is."

"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."

"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."

"And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow."

"I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do."
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