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Vote:   | A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello. |
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Vote: | A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery films. But I think it's a nice change of pace-I don't know how long it'll go for. There will always be the Merchant-Ivory/Kenneth Branagh movies, but there's something else now-really, it's always been there but the Americans getting to see it makes all the difference. |
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Vote: | Acting is a short, sharp shock, and then I have a two-year break to do some directing. I mean you have to stop-OK, be serious about it-so I've put the kids through school. |
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Vote: | Before I started, I worried about what I was going to say to the actors. It kept me awake at night. Sometimes you get the questions wrong. |
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Vote: | Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight. |
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Vote: | British acting schools are diferent. There is a cultural difference. Americans, Africans, British, I'm not sure we share a language. |
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Vote: | Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary. |
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Vote: | Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy. |
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Vote: | Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do. |
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Vote: | Extra work sucks. Get out quick. |
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Vote: | For me, acting's just great fun. A lot more fun than making sculptures, so that's what I wanted to do. It wasn't any great calling-maybe years later, when I'm 60 or whatever, I'll pretend it was, who knows?! But acting is just the most fun I could ever possibly have in my life... and it still is. |
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Vote: | How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons. |
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Vote: | I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery. |
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Vote: | I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed. |
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Vote: | I didn't want to make soundtrack film or a gun movie. These are the reasons I wanted to make a movie. I wanted to make an adult movie. |
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Vote: | I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen. |
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Vote: | I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance. |
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Vote: | I like the Knicks, the Knicks are OK. |
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Vote: | I love Charleston. That was one of the best experiences I have had making a film. I'm back to Carolina to do my next film. |
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Vote: | I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back. |
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Vote: | I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned. |
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Vote: | I studied Speed Racer, Gigantor, and other pop culture TV courtesy of Quentin. |
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Vote: | I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right. |
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Vote: | I try and take the family with me everywhere I can. It's getting harder the more kids I have. But celibacy sucks. |
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Vote: | I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman. |
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Vote: | I'd like to work with Danny Boyle, I think he'd be great to work with. Abel Ferrara I'd like to work with. Jim Jarmusch. If Werner Hertzog does another film, I'd like to work with him. And James Gray, too, I'd love to work with him again, I think he's incredible. |
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Vote: | I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me. |
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Vote: | I'm a workaholic. |
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Vote: | I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor-a real person. |
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Vote: | If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in. |
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Vote: | Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me. |
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Vote: | My mentors were my editiors. You come from location work with a million people and questions, and you get into the editing room, and its two people. |
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Vote: | One of the guys who worked at the Ape School became my stunt double so we just kept working on different things and just play around. |
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Vote: | People remember villians. Sometimes in an action movie or sci-fi movie, being a villain is actually kind of interesting. |
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Vote: | The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead. |
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Vote: | The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned. |
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Vote: | There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring. |
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Vote: | There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones. |
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Vote: | We made lots of films with blue lights and smoke. It's like our films were an audiiton for Hollywood, and we shouldn't be doing that. |
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Vote: | Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it. |
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Vote: | When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this. |
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Vote: | You read a script and its based on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, and it goes right in the bin. |