"There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor."
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"Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors."
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"When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun."
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"As an actor, I feel that my work makes me very vulnerable. I have to be emotionally available to serve the scene I'm doing. You never quite know where your emotions will take you."
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"The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life."
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"Chadwick Boseman work as an actor, I think, is truly remarkable, and I had a great time working with him."
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"Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic."
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"I always wanted to be an actor and I'd never dreamt that not only would I be able to do this for a living, but also on top of that I'd be able to choose and steer the course of my own career."
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"I don't consider myself an actor, for me it's employment. Like the actor who's a waiter a lot, I'm an actor when I'm not on tour, in that that's a job I can do."
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"When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be"."
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"Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men."
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"Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage."
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"I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors."
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"I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment."
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"My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors."
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"Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part."
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"I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses."
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"I never thought I was going to be an actor. And I never really thought of myself as one. Even though I keep working. I thought I'd just do a wave of movies, and then I'd burn out. They just kept coming together."
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"Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway."
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"I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy."
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