1. “The point about a great story is that it’s got a beginning, a middle and end.”
2. “It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.”
3. “I am the character you are not supposed to like.”
4. “What’s interesting about the process of acting is how often you don’t know what you’re doing.”
5. “I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.”
6. “If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.”
7. “Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.”
8. “If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.”
9. “I think there’s some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.”
10. “Talent is an accident if genes, and a responsibility.”
11. “I can only see my limitations. That’s just who I am.”
12. “The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.”
13. “There’s a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.”
14. “All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.”
15. “Nothing gives me as much pleasure as traveling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.”
16. “Actors are actually very supportive of each other.”
17. “I’m a lot less serious than people think.”
18. “I’ve never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.”
19. “Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.”
20. “On film you put all your energies into a single glance.”
21. “The difference between being a actor and director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn’t.”
22. “One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.”
23. “I don’t play villains, I play very interesting people.”
24. “I like it when stories are left open.”
25. “We’re dead as a species if we don’t tell stories, because then we don’t know who we are.”
26. “From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they’re in charge of their own career somehow or other.”
27. “If you judge the character, you can’t play it.”
28. “You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.”
29. “I have this feeling that if I could sort out what’s on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.”
30. “You try to find things that are interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.”
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