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"So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts."
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"I don't think about Hollywood at all."
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"My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out."
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"In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies."
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"It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out."
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"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
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"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."
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"I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood."
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"What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait."
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"I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one."
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"Hollywood wants press, any kind of press."
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"At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again."
Acting
"If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place."
Life
"From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London."
Acting
"It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust."
Trust
"The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better."
Movies
"I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do."
Mind
"I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no."
Love
"I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors."
Business
"Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off."
Music
"As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them."
Love
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