"What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor."
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"I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep."
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"Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes."
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"When you are an actor every day kind of morphs into one as there is no set structure to my job."
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"I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite"
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"I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person."
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"When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams."
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"I didn't even know my bra size until I made a movie."
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"Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?"
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"Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace."
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"For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives."
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"It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports."
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"Sometimes people come in as a director, and they just want the result, and they barely want that to tell you the truth. Sometimes directors barely talk to the actors; they are so focused on the cinematic elements of the movie, getting the shot and getting the lighting right or getting the CGI effects right and all of that, and they just trust that you are just going to do what you do."
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"Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors."
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"The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear."
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"In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors."
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"I'm always surprised that certain actors have Twitter accounts. I guess they use it in a way that works for them. But I'd rather that people had less access to my personal life. If I could keep it that way, I'd be a happy lady."
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"Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it."
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"I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters."
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"There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers."
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