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When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
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When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.
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When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?
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When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
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When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.
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When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
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While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.
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While a lab director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community. I learned this early in my career while I was leading the construction of the SPEAR facility.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Working with Jon Hamm was super-fun because he's a brilliant actor and he's very kind. I would hang around sets for scenes that I wasn't even in because I wanted to watch how he worked.
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You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
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You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.
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You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.
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You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.
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You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.
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I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
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