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When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.
You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.
I tell you this: if I was in the house with those people in the Bergman flicks, I'd walk right out, much less pay $5 to see them.
You dream to eat whatever you can and get away with it and then when you're told you have to eat, it loses its fun straight away.
I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.
I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.
I often think it can often be very difficult for comedians to revisit the same gag. I think Russell's a bit more than a comedian.
I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.
I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.
To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul.
Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen.
The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real.
A lot of people would probably get quite bored watching a series about a king who is powerful and never showed any vulnerability.
Homosexuality has been around since humanity began and different societies at different times have reacted in a different manner.
I packed coffee once when I lived in Australia, and I just remember going around every day with coffee up my nose and in my ears.
I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.
It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?
I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
If you go into acting to make money then you're an idiot. It's my hobby and the fact that I'm doing my hobby for a job is mental.
We get older and more sophisticated and a bit cleverer, but certainly boys - and men - are as childish and basic as we ever were.
It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.
Some of the most provocative TV that I'm inspired by is in the U.K. You guys take it for granted, but in America, we can't do it.
Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris."
A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
I just want to make sure that I give the animators everything they need, so they have plenty of choices to match their animation.
When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job.
The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?
There's a lot of great directors that I want to work with, but as soon as I mention them, I never get a chance to work with them.
I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.
I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.
As soon as you do something successfully, you're going to be known for that, and it's up to you to sort of move the needle again.
You can't follow another actor's performance. You can't be Robert DeNiro, because you're not Robert DeNiro, and, you know, he is.
I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
If you are a great guy off screen but you are a bad actor and are dishonest to your work, then I would not spend my money on you.
My brother starting earning early in life. I stopped taking money from my parents, and my brother would give me the pocket money.
I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.
I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.
The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry
The great thing about performance capture is you can go off, and then, without changing costume, you can become another character.
The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.
I havent had the whole famous thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot.
I kind of hid acting from my dad because I knew what he thought about acting at the time. His advice was "Don't do it," basically.
I don't hold much of care for 3D. I think it's a passing fad. It came and went in the '60s. I don't see what it adds to the story.
I don't think I'm very fashionable. I drink a fair amount of Barry's Tea, from Cork - but might that be fashionable? I don't know.