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“I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.”

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There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

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Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

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I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

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My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.

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A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of…

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I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

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I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.

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Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.

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How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.

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I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real…

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If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that…

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The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead.

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