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I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

I've been an actor since I was a kid.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

I've always considered myself a character actor.

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.

I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

I'm an actor more than anything else.

I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.