” I like actors – such as Margaret Rutherford and Peter Lorre – who aren’t afraid to over-act like real people. When I take a job, I can always come up with ten different ways of doing the part. But I’ll always choose the flashiest one. You’ve got to dress the window a bit. “
” I’m often given parts that aren’t as big as they are colorful, but people remember them. When it’s a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you’re given. I can make two lines seem like ‘Hamlet’. “
” I think you can be terribly overexposed. I’ve been always very careful in my career to do theatre, it takes you out of the television eye, and people are glad to see you back again. “
” I always think instinct is more interesting than anything you can think up. I mistrust and am rather bored with actors who are of the Stanislavski school who think about detail. “
” I like films better than the theater because you have to spend so much energy projecting your voice from the stage in the sheer effort to be heard. “
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