I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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