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  1. It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always …
  2. I feel incredibly lucky to have discovered early in my life, practically when I was a child, that I could do something that in the end I fi…
  3. As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.
  4. Beneath the gentle modesty of his behavior lay the absolute assurance of a born artist.
  5. I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave per…
  6. He brought you face to face with the unfathomable. No actor summoned with such authority the mysterious depths of human experience.
  7. Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.
  8. The only great actor I have worked with who was not in any sense a star - there was no great publicity about him, no scandal about him, non…

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