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Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

About Family Get Immediate
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Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.
Actor Another Entertainer Know
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I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

Acting Anyone Box Certainly
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I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.

About Acting Any Because
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In the end, I do have a group of friends and teachers whose opinions I respect, and so I guess I just have to be content with their feedback.

Content End Feedback Friends
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I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.
Cast I Think Like Self
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My job is what I love. I don't need an escape from it.

Escape I Love Job Love
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I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mind, I've developed a thick skin.

Bit Developed Fine Little
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I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.'

About Acted Acting After
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I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.

Am Best Clothing Cold
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I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.

Animals Could Dump People
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Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

About Any Cost Counting
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I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.

About Achieved Cause Celebrity
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You don't want to be the guy whose back's to the camera in the emotional part of the movie. So, you have to be aware of the camera movement and what the camera's doing.

Aware Back Camera Doing
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You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.
Film Knowing NotKnowing Starting
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I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.
Chess Know Life MyLife
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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

Forget Heaven Kingdom Like
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You don't have to like an actor to do a scene with him. You don't have to like a director. But it's just better if you do. And I think, you know, you've got to begin that with respect.

Actor Begin Better Director
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I believe in singing for my supper. I'll never accept a grant because what I do should be able to be founded purely on free enterprise.

Able Accept Because Believe
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I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it.

Absolutely Actor Character Confident
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It just seems like a religion that is perfect for people who feel like they need a grounding, who feels that the world has run off on them. I've discussed this with Scientologists, and they don't disagree. So, for a certain type of person, that's great.

Certain Disagree Discussed Feel
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War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

About Actually Also Benefit
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I've been voted one of Australia's 50 national treasures. I've even had my face on an Australian stamp - the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course.

Apart Australia Australian Been
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I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.

Done Few Grease Musicals
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I don't really take vacations because when I'm working, it's usually in a far-flung, exotic place somewhere. But I have a farm in Australia I like to go back to when I'm at home and not working.

Australia Back Because Exotic
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Believe Freedom Gradual I Believe
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
Could Freedom Midst Nation
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

Both Done Doubt Every
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Affairs Betray Calculate Every
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We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

Develop Evolve Feeling Find
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The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.

Capacities Each EachOne Gain
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The problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much

Problems People World
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We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.

Forget Higher Insight Knowledge
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An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

Actor Need Stabilize Personality
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People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.

People Drink Afraid Revealing themselves
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Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

About Anything Avalanche Everything
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There never seems to be any trouble brewing around a bar until a woman puts that high heel over the brass rail. Don't ask me why, but somehow women at bars seem to create trouble among men.

Never seems Trouble Brewing around Bar
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The only thing money is good for is to buy your freedom.

Thing money Good Your freedom
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The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.

Only reason Million dollars Business
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Ain’t nothing a man can’t do if he believes in himself.

Nothing Man Can't do Believe
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Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you're really good at. Then just try to match them up! Revisit your list once a year to make sure you're on the right track.

Write down Love Good at Just try
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When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

Come home My daughter Door Hug
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It's not really the job of a public servant to inspire, but to get the job that the people demand done. The Democrats think that if they have hope and are inspired, things will get better, but they actually won't.

Actually Better Demand Democrats
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I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

Never Wanted Stage Musical
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I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty.

Am Favor Guilty Return
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Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

Sometimes Places Characters Emotions
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Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.

I believe Frightening Realize
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It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

Acting My life My heart
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I'm quite a competitive person, so I do quite like to win.

Competitive person Win
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I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

Back down Fear The ghost Diminishes people
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