“ Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder. ”
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“ I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities. ”
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“ I am-hello!-an actor, an entertainer, a song-and-dance man. can do anything. ”
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“ I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was. ”
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“ It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity. ”
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“ To be moved is beautiful. We don't go to the cinema to leave in exactly the same state that we were in when we walked in. We buy our ticket, we pay our seven or eight dollars to be moved. That's honestly what we pay for. ”
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“ The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head! ”
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“ All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. ”
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“ If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death. ”
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“ There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well. ”
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“ Unfortunately I went to a hotel in Krakow, and unfortunately, one night, there was a brawl in the bar because a horrible anti-Semitic remark was made to one of my fellow Israeli actors, one of my fellow actors who was an Israeli, sorry, and we were all extremely upset… ”
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“ Unfortunately I went to a hotel in Krakow, and unfortunately, one night, there was a brawl in the bar because a horrible anti-Semitic remark was made to one of my fellow Israeli actors, one of my fellow actors who was an Israeli, sorry, and we were all extremely upset… ”
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“ To offer to our tribe, as storytellers, narratives which are absent of a dark side is a terrible disservice. I'm just fighting for the right for a film to be stirring and brilliant and illuminating. ”
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“ Once I start painting, once I start acting and working, it's not a holiday. It's not a respite, but it is, in a sense, a balance, but it's of equal weight. It's a balance; it does balance out. ”
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“ I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies. ”
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“ I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain. ”
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“ I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew. ”
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“ One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer. ”
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“ If you start to victimise yourself, as an unworthy component in a beautifully constructed machine, that component is going to fail the machinery. ”
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“ Of course, silence in the theater, when you know that that silence is being sustained before your eyes by a group of actors on stage can be equally thrilling. I think we undervalue silence as a very powerful currency. I think we're frightened of it right now… ”
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“ There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well. ”
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“ When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour. ”
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“ People have been, as I said earlier, crushed and distorted and forced into all kinds of strange postures as human beings because of circumstance. I don't know what monsters and demons would be in me if I felt that violence was the only way out of a very dark corner. ”
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“ I'm a hopping maniac, and if I didn't have that disciplined channel to pour this maniacal energy into, I'd probably go berserk. ”
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“ There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance. ”
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“ That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere. ”
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“ When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him. ”
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“ To be moved is beautiful. We don't go to the cinema to leave in exactly the same state that we were in when we walked in. We buy our ticket, we pay our seven or eight dollars to be moved. That's honestly what we pay for. ”
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