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You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actresses. Where as in the U.K. you're in a much smaller market there.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.
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Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
