"I don't see the point of being an actor and doing the same thing, all the time. Where's the challenge there?"
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"Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me."
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"I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them scared to do it again for another director."
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"I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful."
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"Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors."
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"I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'."
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"An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress."
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"I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own."
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"Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life."
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"I've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch."
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"I do understand sometimes when actors say there's no one to talk to, or you can't react to, there's truth in that, but for me, I've always enjoyed green screen, and blue screen."
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"I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication. Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn't even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument."
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"I've always believed that the greatest actors are the ones that have the voices that are imitable."
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"Apparently Jamie is great at being soft and hard at the same time. Which is hard to do for an actor! He's going to get an Oscar!"
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"The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right."
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"An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument."
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"I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films."
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"Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled."
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"I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back."
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"Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad."
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