Alan Bates Quotes

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• An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.
• I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without…
• I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.
• I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all.
• People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.
• You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply…
• I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.
• I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life,…
• No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the…
• Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know…
• You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.
• You've got to have steel in you somewhere.

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