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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
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An actor likes to be treated in a certain way, to work in a certain manner.
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At least I'm not being stoned in the street here for having dared to try.
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Certain things that one does get more focus than others.
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Coming back to do a play at a Scottish festival must seem very perverse. Even I thought I was mad.
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Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
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I can't answer for what the director or the studio do.
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I couldn't have done the film without computer graphics.
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I don't eat the right food, I'm not a monk, and I'm very gregarious. But I'm not stupid.
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I don't know what I'm going to be doing in the next half hour.
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I don't mind seducing as long as at the end of the seduction there's an idea or a shock.
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I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.
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I don't want to drag anybody anywhere. But where were you born?
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I drive a car in L.A., and I don't here. I feel more in charge of myself.
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I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: You're going to forget your lines.
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I love to travel and I don't have children, so there is a certain freedom.
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I only saw Magnolia recently, and thought it was just brilliant.
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I think it's a disgrace that English actors get taken advantage of. It's very different here.
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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
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I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.
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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.
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I was always used to seeing my mother in the brightest of colours.
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I wouldn't dream of being out there as an actor looking for work.
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I'm a Piscean. In every area of my life complete opposites are at work all the time.
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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
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I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.
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I'm aware of lots of cross currents rather than separating things out.
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I've had to guide my career and seize any opportunity that came my way.
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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
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If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.
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If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.
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If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
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It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
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It's also a curious thing to be doing because I haven't been on stage for four years.
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It's disgusting and wonderful. Like going to Dunkin' Donuts for lunch every day.
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Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
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Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
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Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
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Most of our lives, we function with a big divide between here and here.
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Most of the 14 films I've done, however, have been independents shot in Europe and Great Britain.
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My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.
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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
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Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
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Nothing is like anything else and I'm not thinking of anything else I've done, just the job in hand.
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On film you put all your energies into a single glance.
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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
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One of the concerns I had... was a culture which puts its actors on pedestals.
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Some actors have opportunities and shapes given to them. Not me.
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Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.
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Sometimes you see a film and make a mental note that you want to work with that particular director.
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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
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The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
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The main trouble is that as an actor you've got too many memories of horrible rehearsals.
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The play is as seductive as any of its characters.
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The play makes the rules. This play is about couples who swim in and out of focus.
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There are a lot of gremlins out there for both of us.
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There are particular muscles which go flabby if you don't use them.
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There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
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There's no master plan. It's not calculated. Every choice is taken on its own terms.
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We all say lots of stupid things that, you know, you wish you could take back.
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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
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When you come off the stage, you want to walk out into life.
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Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
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You don't always look ahead, but you turn equally to the past. I think of that more and more.
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You only speak as a human being in life and, therefore, you're trying to reproduce life onstage.
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You watch yourself doing things because you have set in motion events which will change your life.
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You're there with these characters looking at life through generations.
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You're too busy sensing other people's fear rather than your own.
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