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" I'm the audience's representative on earth. "

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" I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better. "

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" In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor. "