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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

I did get offers from Hollywood, but they were all scripts with monsters in them. If I had done them, I would have disappeared. I would have come back to France anyway, and I would have had to start all over again and lost a lot of time.

So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.