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I'm holding a mirror to the audience and telling them there is a violent person in all of us. (unknown)
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job. (job)
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. (people)
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London. (celebration)
Quite often when I'm cast in a movie, I'm asked to bring whatever intelligence is there to the surface. (movies)
I didn't go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey. (school)
I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting. (acting and actors)
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now. (song and singing)
I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child. (acting and actors)
I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate. (fortune)
With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do. (unknown)
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. (work)
But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh. (unknown)
Being a leading man on a film set under the direction of somebody like Dickie Attenborough is very empowering, and you have to be extremely careful how you use that power. (movies)
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. (class)
Sometimes, you know, one is distracted by a bad print or a bad sound quality. (quality)
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies. (movies)
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. We fill it at the least provocation. (theater)
But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible. (comedy and comedians)
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. (movies)
I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiring tremendously as I grew up. And that would be Spencer Tracy... and Bogart and that particular approach to the work. The stillness, the economy, the grace of that work, so they would have been then, my heroes on the screen. (work)
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