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| 1. | Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over. |
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| 2. | All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening. |
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| 3. | An actor likes to be treated in a certain way, to work in a certain manner. |
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| 4. | At least I'm not being stoned in the street here for having dared to try. |
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| 5. | Certain things that one does get more focus than others. |
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| 6. | Coming back to do a play at a Scottish festival must seem very perverse. Even I thought I was mad. |
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| 7. | Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together. |
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| 8. | I can't answer for what the director or the studio do. |
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| 9. | I couldn't have done the film without computer graphics. |
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| 10. | 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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| 11. | I don't know what I'm going to be doing in the next half hour. |
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| 12. | 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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| 13. | I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me. |
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| 14. | I don't want to drag anybody anywhere. But where were you born? |
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| 15. | I drive a car in L.A., and I don't here. I feel more in charge of myself. |
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| 16. | I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: You're going to forget your lines. |
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| 17. | I love to travel and I don't have children, so there is a certain freedom. |
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| 18. | I only saw Magnolia recently, and thought it was just brilliant. |
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| 19. | I think it's a disgrace that English actors get taken advantage of. It's very different here. |
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| 20. | I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom. |
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| 21. | I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy. |
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| 22. | I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure. |
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| 23. | I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting. |
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| 24. | I was always used to seeing my mother in the brightest of colours. |
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| 25. | I wouldn't dream of being out there as an actor looking for work. |
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| 26. | I'm a Piscean. In every area of my life complete opposites are at work all the time. |
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| 27. | I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic. |
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| 28. | I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience. |
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| 29. | I'm aware of lots of cross currents rather than separating things out. |
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| 30. | I've had to guide my career and seize any opportunity that came my way. |
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| 31. | I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision. |
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| 32. | If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust. |
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| 33. | If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work. |
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| 34. | If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine. |
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| 35. | If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation. |
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| 36. | It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising. |
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| 37. | It's also a curious thing to be doing because I haven't been on stage for four years. |
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| 38. | It's disgusting and wonderful. Like going to Dunkin' Donuts for lunch every day. |
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| 39. | Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there. |
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| 40. | Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made. |
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| 41. | Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive. |
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| 42. | Most of our lives, we function with a big divide between here and here. |
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| 43. | Most of the 14 films I've done, however, have been independents shot in Europe and Great Britain. |
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| 44. | My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line. |
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| 45. | My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident. |
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| 46. | Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes. |
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| 47. | 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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| 48. | On film you put all your energies into a single glance. |
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| 49. | One longs for a director with a sense of imagination. |
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| 50. | One of the concerns I had... was a culture which puts its actors on pedestals. |
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| 51. | Some actors have opportunities and shapes given to them. Not me. |
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| 52. | Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch. |
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| 53. | Sometimes you see a film and make a mental note that you want to work with that particular director. |
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| 54. | Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility. |
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| 55. | The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial. |
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| 56. | The main trouble is that as an actor you've got too many memories of horrible rehearsals. |
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| 57. | The play is as seductive as any of its characters. |
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| 58. | The play makes the rules. This play is about couples who swim in and out of focus. |
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| 59. | There are a lot of gremlins out there for both of us. |
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| 60. | There are particular muscles which go flabby if you don't use them. |
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| 61. | There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do. |
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| 62. | There's no master plan. It's not calculated. Every choice is taken on its own terms. |
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| 63. | We all say lots of stupid things that, you know, you wish you could take back. |
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| 64. | What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves. |
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| 65. | What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing. |
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| 66. | When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter. |
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| 67. | When you come off the stage, you want to walk out into life. |
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| 68. | Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play. |
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| 69. | You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped. |
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| 70. | You don't always look ahead, but you turn equally to the past. I think of that more and more. |
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| 71. | You only speak as a human being in life and, therefore, you're trying to reproduce life onstage. |
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| 72. | You watch yourself doing things because you have set in motion events which will change your life. |
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| 73. | You're there with these characters looking at life through generations. |
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| 74. | You're too busy sensing other people's fear rather than your own. |
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