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I'm not picky, quite honestly.
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The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
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I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!
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I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
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I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.
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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
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It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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God knows, I haven't always been successful.
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For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.
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Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
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I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
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At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
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When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
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We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
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A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.