As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well. |
As far as movies go, my master is Fred Zinnemann. |
Being a painter is a lonely, desolate life, but I learned by observing people, observing conditions around me, the way things worked. And I've found that painting-which I still do-has helped me a great deal as an actor. There's a surprising amount in common. |
He was a very experienced man, and for some inexplicable reason, he walked out in front of one of those rollers. We're stunned. |
His life has really opened up since I made him a Senator |
I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick. |
I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time, to say high Anglo-Catholic would be a real English understatement. |
I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid $75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money. |
I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything! |
I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word. |
I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio. |
I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe. |
I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit. |
I think it would be really sad if the local people didn't realize how important he was. |
I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics. |