"I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession."
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"I want only dead actors. That way there'll be no jealousy."
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"More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces."
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"The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing."
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"I don't want to be a luvvie actor. It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this."
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"Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor."
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"Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old."
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"Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors."
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"'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors."
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"I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs."
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"I love all the voiceovers I do. I can't remember them all, but I seem to do them all of the time. And there's nothing easier because you just stand and read the script, and you don't have to act the way actors do. You don't have to be made up and put costumes on."
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"I love recording lines. It's like being an actor without having to really act."
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"Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature."
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"every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all."
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"What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny."
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"Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be....but I'll be good."
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"You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard."
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"You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off."
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"How could an actor become president?"
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"What does an actor know about politics?"
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