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Quotes by Actor
"I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point."
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"One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again."
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"I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch."
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"We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross."
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"I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often."
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"The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR."
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"Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could."
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"I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that."
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"My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York."
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"It's a story about victory that will touch the lives of everyone who watches it. It's powerful."
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"My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money."
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"The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular."
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"Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one."
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"Oh, I see people everywhere. Some are celebs, but most of my friends are just regular people. The thing is, even celebs are normal people too. Just people."
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"I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant."
Time,
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"I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else."
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"It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor."
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"I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth."
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"There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago."
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"I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun."
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"Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything."
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"I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer."
Now,
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"There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond."
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"I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy."
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"We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society."
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"The key is to keep improving. I'm not there yet. I know I have to keep trying to improve and keep trying to get faster."
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"Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character."
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"It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience."
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"I've often wondered, when they've done Of Mice And Men on stage, and I've seen it, how they did that gun thing. I've watched it on stage, but I don't remember it."
Men,
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