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Vote: | Acting is too mysterious to describe exactly. If it's anything, it's an identification with something instinctive. |
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Vote: | An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor. |
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Vote: | But, you know, as you get older, my God, the parts get more varied. There's a lot of fun to be had doing a lot of different things. |
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Vote: | I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people. |
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Vote: | I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image. |
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Vote: | I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you. |
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Vote: | I think in every generation there's a certain amount of, not awe exactly, but that sort of awareness of other people's achievements. |
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Vote: | I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all. |
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Vote: | I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society. |
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Vote: | It was great to be a part of such a classic period and I'm just glad to keep working. |
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Vote: | No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants. |
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Vote: | Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does. |
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Vote: | People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do. |
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Vote: | Playing those traditional types of ultra-masculine and ultra-feminine roles has led people into a terrible mess. |
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Vote: | Studios are OK, but there's an unreality there and I much prefer to be on location. |
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Vote: | There is a side of me that likes not only playing monsters, but also monstrous-sized parts. |
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Vote: | You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are. |
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Vote: | You can't always go by the book, even in comedy. |
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Sir Alan Arthur Bates (February 17, 1934 - December 27, 2003) was a British actor.
Born in Derbyshire, Bates earned a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where he studied before leaving to join the Royal Air Force. In 1956, he debuted on stage in the West End, starring in Look Back in Anger, a role which made him a star. Four years later, he appeared in The Entertainer, his first film role. He soon starred in Whistle Down the Wind, and in the Bernard Malamud film The Fixer, which gave him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
He was married to the actress, Victoria Ward, from 1970 until her death in 1992; they had two sons.
Bates starred in such international hit films as Georgy Girl, Far From the Madding Crowd, Zorba the Greek, An Unmarried Woman and Women in Love, but he consciously decided to concentrate on a few well-defined roles, rather than to take everything that came his way. On television, his parts ranged from classic roles such as The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978) to Guy Burgess in An Englishman Abroad (1983) to the storyteller in the 2000 version of the Arabian Nights.
Bates was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1996, and was knighted in 2003. He died of pancreatic cancer.
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