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" I haven't planned a reaction on anything... If you do, you've screwed up. "

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" All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy. "

" People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't. "

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" The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. "

" I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work. "

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" It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it. "

" I don't put the truth in a cage. I try to find a way to release it. "

" I am just as comfortable in Britain and France as I am in America... but nowhere is perfect. "

" I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it. "

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" The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised. "

" For as privileged an actor as I have been, TV as a standard is short shrift. They have to do it so quickly that they don't stop and take a look. They just shoot. So that's one of the reasons I typically stay away from it. I think art is an act of consideration, and if you're not considering, I don't think you're really doing mankind a favor. "

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