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"And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away."
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"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."
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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that."
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"It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom."
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"All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor."
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"Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained."
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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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"You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor."
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"Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew."
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"But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting."
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"I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance."
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"There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life."
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"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."
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"I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty."
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"It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting."
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"If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill."
Respect

"Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood."
Food

"You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them."
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"But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love."
Love
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