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Quotes by Actor
"If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl."
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"I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little."
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"Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have."
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"I came to the conclusion that the very best thing for Rosie, from the time she was 2 weeks old, was for us to get married."
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"In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds."
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"I really want to do the Olympics. Obviously, I can't let things out of the bag, so to speak."
Want,
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"My part had three lines. I said, 'You look wonderful, sir,' three times. All my friends said, 'Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life.' I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once."
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"Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity."
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"You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them."
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"If it's not in New York, let's say it's in St. Louis, then they've got to find a place or get with someone who knows about the work... they've got to find a place like that and do scenes, and then try to get in plays."
Work,
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"I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies."
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"Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified."
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"I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business."
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"You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing."
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"I just want to go out there and do what I can do, contribute in the ways that I can. Whether I get exposure or not, it's about winning."
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"In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story."
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"But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography. There's an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting."
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"When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about."
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"The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us."
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"I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost."
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"And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff."
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"I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation."
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"I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture."
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"If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it."
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"Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved."
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