"My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia."
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"The secret of being a great actor is a love of food."
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"The last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much."
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"Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings."
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"I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor."
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"As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage."
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"I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty."
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"I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor."
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"As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential."
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"It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom"
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"I can do a limited amount of things and that's what I do and I feel comfortable doing it and I have no particular desire to do anything else as an actor."
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"Sometimes some of the best moments are contributed by the actors being creative, with their own improvisations."
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"I don't like to meet the actor and have a lot of conferences and talk about their sub-life and their off-screen life and their back stories and all that nonsense, because it never means anything."
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"I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom. When they improvise, they make it sound alive."
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"As I got more confident, I was able to let actors improvise, and do long takes. It's 10%, 5% you learn and experience. The rest you just have or you don't have."
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"If the [actors] are working, and I have a dinner engagement, I don't do 20 takes. I do five takes and go home. I want to go to dinner."
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"The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'"
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"A lot of actors are just like la la la - they're never really connected and then they're in the scene and then boom. They're looking you in the eyes and they're just really focused."
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"Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself."
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"I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced."
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