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"I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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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."
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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
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"Acting is happy agony."
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"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."
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"Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over."
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"Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?"
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"Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate."
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"Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French."
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"I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen."
Character
"Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence."
Intelligence
"With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do."
Exercise
"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour."
Writer
"I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew."
Being
"Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work."
Work
"I don't honestly think people know what acting is."
People
"I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language."
Cinema
"I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other."
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"If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance."
Work
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