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The way a character sounds is so important to how you're going to play him.
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As a Jew, there's a need to keep that atrocity alive. There were Catholics and gypsies and homosexuals who died in the Holocaust, too. It's amazing that people allowed this slaughter to take place. There's a need to make these films and reiterate it happened.
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I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.
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Human beings are fascinating with religion and stories about not dying. Or dying and being brought back to life. I think it's just part of our make up.
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I'm a big believer that an actor should be able to pick up any piece of material and act it, the way a good musician can.
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My best stuff as a teacher was always to find the problems within each individual actor, and I'll suggest things that I know that particular actor will have difficulty with.
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I always say, if I tell you a joke right now and it's funny, you laugh. Now, we set the lights, and I tell you the joke again, it's hard to find it funny the second time.
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To really have craft, you must be able to repeat something as one has to do in films.
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All an audience wants to believe is that what's going on is happening for the first time.
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Every young actor wants to do 'Hamlet' on the West End. Why? Because they can bring something to it.
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I've spent a lot of time playing roles that didn't really challenge me. I suppose every actor feels that way.
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My father was an Austrian, and he brought some Torahs over to this country, ancient Torahs that were slipped out of Germany.
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I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the kinds of things that human beings go through. I love to see spontaneity and 'inevitability.' How it gets there is going to shock the hell out of me, but it will get there somehow.
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'Mission' was a mind game. The ideal mission was getting in and getting out without anyone ever knowing we were there.
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For my generation of actors, it was about the theatre. Television didn't exist. Coaxial cable didn't exist.
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I studied with Strasberg, Elia Kazan. They raised the bar. They weren't easy to please, and they made you achieve the best you could do. That's what a teacher does: he infuses you with passion for something.
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I like a character that is still alive and is necessarily thinking, and either grows or diminishes or whatever.
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I don't like to do what I call 'the grunters' - a character who sits at a table and grunts and young people make fun of. I turn a lot of those down.
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As a young actor, I was working much more readily and being offered more things.
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No one tries to cry. You try not to cry. No one tries to laugh. You try not to laugh.
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You can't perish because of your own feelings; you have to embrace those things as an actor because it's part of your palette.
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The year I got into The Actors Studio, Steve McQueen and I were the only two accepted that whole year.
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I always believed that all it would take was a decent role. I felt like a pinch hitter with a leaden bat: that if I got a chance, I could hit a home run.
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I've turned down a lot of roles. Some of them made stars out of the people. I have no regrets.
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Bad actors try to cry, and good actors try not to. Bad actors try to laugh, and good actors try not to.
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Dialogue is what a character's willing to share and reveal to another character, and the 90% they aren't willing to share is what I do for a living.
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In film, there are always things that could conceivably create artificiality in any performance.
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An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself.
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I'm not speaking, you know, egocentrically at all, but I do have a very wide range.
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I was very thin, exceedingly thin. If you look at 'North By Northwest,' you'll get a clue.
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The average scene in a film, you have to shoot it 15, 20 times. That means you got to laugh or cry 15, 20 times.
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I trained as an actor with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman, and those guys set a very high bar.
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I was being groomed to be the theatrical caricaturist. And I know if I got that job, I'd never quit. So I quit. I knew I wanted to go into the theater... I wanted to act.
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The modern cineplexes are mundane, dull boxes. But 'The Majestic' pays tribute to the movie palaces that made people feel like royalty. It honors a time when pictures helped Americans get through grim periods like the blacklist and the war.
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They were like little palaces: all rococo or art deco. You'd walk in off those hot streets into a nice, air-cooled theater, and you'd spend all day watching Cagney or Jimmy Stewart. It cost all of 17 cents.
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I'm certainly not going to play any of Matt Damon's roles in the future. But he will eventually grow into mine, since he'll be around for a long time.
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Of course, I remember the Disney 'Pinocchio.' I was a little kid then... It was very instructive. Little boys who don't behave wind up in lots of trouble.
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A film is not going to change the world. But if it can do that to individuals on an individual level, I think it's a magnificent movie.
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