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You have to be selfish to be an actor.

Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me.

As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.

I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.

There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.