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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
- Acting
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's so much crap talked about acting.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries.
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't honestly think people know what acting is.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
- Lazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.
- Charity
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
- Curious
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
- Dating
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.
- Bereft
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never felt bereft of anything.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
- Bond
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
- Naive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
- Hamlet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
- Director
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- Nov 07, 2020
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020