My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.
The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.
Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.
Acting is a youthful profession.