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Quotes by Actor
"I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy."
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"For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard."
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"As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things."
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"If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective."
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"I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring."
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"It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild."
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"When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures."
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"I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life."
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"I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues."
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"The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans."
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"I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them."
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"Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen."
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"I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing."
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"And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done."
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"What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude."
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"I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color."
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"Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them."
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"If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself."
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"I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has."
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"I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King."
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"If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable."
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"Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem."
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"I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years."
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"To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine."
Pen,
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"Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse."
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"Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation."
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