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An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays. |
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I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.- Tony Shalhoub
You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.
I think if you are an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you are going to have picked up a few things that you are going to need to change when you are working on stage.
It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we have had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we do not sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'
I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.
