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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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"There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them."
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"When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world."
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"In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk."
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"You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors."
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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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"Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road."
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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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"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."
Acting
"You're going to relegate my history to a month."
History
"I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving."
People
"As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less."
Business
"Black history is American history."
History
"Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up."
Food
"There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume."
Learning
"Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero."
American
"This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection."
Thought
"And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in."
People
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