I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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