This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's … - Tom Courtenay

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Beware of writing to me. I always answer. . . My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.

Tom Courtenay

This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's like, don't get involved with anyone in the play.

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I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether you peaked at all - and then you're finished and it's too late.

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The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

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I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.

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My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.

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There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

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Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.

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If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

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