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"But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor."
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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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"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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"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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"I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour."
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"Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to."
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"The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films."
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"And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor."
Character
"The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water."
Feelings
"It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake."
Mistake
"The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted."
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"But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor."
Actor
"Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character."
Character
"This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all."
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"With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling."
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"And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true."
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