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Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

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I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

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One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.

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I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

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The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

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I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

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Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

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Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

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Why don't I like you?" "Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.

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I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

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I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

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Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

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Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

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Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

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I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

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I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

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