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" Acting didn't come and just clip me on the nose. "
Clip
Acting
Come
" Because I was writing verse, my instructor suggested I study Shakespeare. The Shakespeare teacher insisted you couldn't understand the text without seeing it on its feet. "
Feet
Seeing
Teacher
" 'Criminal Intent' scripts are very good. Like others involved in 'Law & Order' stuff, I've come to appreciate the lack of 'soap,' if you will. The story dominates. You don't spend a lot of time with the psychological underpinnings of the police. "
Time
Police
You
" Every lawyer is an actor. The place where a lawyer's acting ability shines most is certainly in the courtroom, but it works very well in the boardroom and in the office. "
Lawyer
Acting
Actor
" Hector Elizondo and Adam Arkin were two guys I liked a lot. "
Two
Were
Lot
" I always thought I was a fairly meek individual. "
Meek
Always
Thought
" If someone asks me to play myself, I've got problems. There's more pain involved. "
Me
More
Myself
" I have no regrets. I can't think of a regret. "
Think
Regrets
Regret
" I'm just after the best script I can get. "
Get
Script
I Can
" I'm like a guy hanging down from a horse's belly trying to establish control. On a scale of 1 to 100, I'm at 1, and I'm trying to get to 2. The older I get, the more I enjoy control, because I've lived out of control for a long, long time. "
Time
Long
Horse
" In the theater, we used to have four weeks of glorious rehearsals. "
Weeks
Four
Used
" I think life is a little more basic here in Australia. There aren't so many distractions. People seem to feel they can be kinder with each other here, I think, to a greater extent than in the States. "
People
Feel
Life
" It seems to me, in this culture, you need to have a subsidy to do theatre, not that I put theatre above anything else. "
Me
Above
Culture
" It's funny, but as time goes by, I get stopped in airports all the time, and it's always about 'Shannon's Deal.' "
Deal
Time Goes By
Time
" I've kind of done everything late. "
Everything
Late
Done
" I wanted the opportunity to work with Judy Davis and Simon Wincer. "
Work
Wanted
Simon
" I worked at the New York Civil Liberties Union as a starving actor in the early '80s. I was in love with what they were doing. "
New York
New
Love
" My father became the technical advisor for 'The Desert Fox,' with James Mason as Rommel. They wanted an Aussie who had been in North Africa with the English, and found my father on the Pasadena police force. "
Africa
Police
Who
" My father was Australian. "
Father
Australian
" Next time I do a play, I want to go out of town. I don't like the idea of opening in New York. I don't have to do theatre, but if you're going to do it, you should do it well. These days, everything has to be up and running in five minutes. As a result, the rehearsal time is missing. "
You
Theatre
Time
" Television allows for survival, which is the basic issue for me. You have to decide how much money is enough. You can't get carried away with the hunt for money. But there are times it shows up, and you need to grab it, and that allows you to hunt for a better script. "
Me
Enough
Better
" With 'Chicago Hope,' I'm seeing if anyone will like me again. "
Me
Hope
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