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The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
Francesca Annis
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis
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In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.


Danny Pintauro
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The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.


Patricia Clarkson
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When you get older, unless you're a huge star, the parts become less and the competition becomes greater. Because the guys left standing are the best.
Peter Riegert
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It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.
Julie Walters
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If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you fit in, you try to be too many parts of the story. You gild the lily. I see it all the time.
John C. McGinley
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Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
Gary Oldman
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The thing I get a lot is, 'You've got a very recognisable face.' I'm never quite sure what to make of it.
Will Poulter
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I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
There are not very many opportunities for little people in the industry. There are small parts and character parts, but we don't get the girl-at-the-end-of-the-film kind of parts... but I was quite happy with what I was doing.
Kenny Baker
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As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.
Deborah Bull
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It's such a process to get a show off the ground initially. And then, to already have a second season announced is a dream come true for any actor.
Nicky Whelan
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It's very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards, particularly in filmmaking, is this binary sort of, 'This is a good guy, this is a bad guy.' And I quite like the fact that life is a bit more complex than that.
Hugh Grant
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Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.


John Malkovich
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
Carl Jung
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I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.


Frank Langella
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I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.


Nora Ephron
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You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.


John Oliver
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Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of their job that they like more than others. You can't complain if you get to do what you love doing most of the time, can you?
Monica Ali
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