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- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the audience's representative on earth.
- Garbage
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- Nov 07, 2020
January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.
- As Much Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
- First
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The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.
- Bad Stuff
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
- Nov 07, 2020
The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.
- Nov 07, 2020
My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
- Calm
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
- Dirty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020