"I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting."
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"There is a need for aloneness... for an actor."
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"Do you see what I mean?! About the theater?! I'm back here for three hours and I'm acting like a lunatic. I'll be in analysis till I'm a hundred"
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"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."
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"Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'."
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"(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying."
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"From an outsider's perspective, it's amazing what [Clint Eastwood] does. If he's not directing a film, he's acting in it, or rather he's composing the music for that film. His commitment to what he does is astounding for all of us to witness. It's inspiring, actually."
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"Acting happened to me. If I had pursued it, I think it would have been like someone going to a bar, desperately looking for love and not finding anyone."
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"Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world."
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"I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game."
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"It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive."
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"Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever."
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"I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get out of here! Any minute the building will explode!' And then the reader says: "Yes...we have to get... out of here." So it's not easy to be in the moment in that kind of situation. Reading with the entire cast in the room for The Clone Wars makes the experience much more organic and I love that."
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"Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously."
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"Action has magic, grace and power in it."
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"I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that's what acting is, really."
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"In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream."
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"Death is just the last scene of the last act."
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"If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it."
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"You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things."
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