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Quotes by Actor
"Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life."
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"I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element."
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"It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing."
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"I don't have any children, I have four middle-aged people."
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"The only other things, and again these things are hearsay, is that he could be pretty rough on directors, because he knew exactly the way he wanted to play the part. And he did so."
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"People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that."
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"I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination."
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"Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people."
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"I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing."
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"If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood."
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"It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly."
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"There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place."
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"I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do."
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"It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different."
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"The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe."
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"Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face."
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"The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play."
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"I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something."
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"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them."
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"I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties."
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"You help families focus on the future through their children."
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"Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities."
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"The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking."
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"It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide."
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"It's grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I'm crazy about Jerry. I think he's a unique character."
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"Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by."
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"If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run."
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