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Quotes by Actor
"I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films."
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"For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad."
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"When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious."
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"In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on."
Play,
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"The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost - and whether they'll understand it in Milwaukee."
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"I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good."
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"I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about."
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"I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12."
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"I'm not done with acting but do find my hands full with my current responsibilities. Soon, sometime soon."
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"It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy."
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"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour."
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"If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else starts after me, what am I to do?"
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"It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker."
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"I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know."
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"I always say I was born too late in the world, too old."
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"In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters."
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"I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present."
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"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
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"I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics."
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"I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento."
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"I'm not a huge drama person. I think I liked them more when I was younger."
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"Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set."
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"I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it."
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"I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas."
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"I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos."
Film,
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"The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason."
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"Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it."
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