My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.
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When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind.
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I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.
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Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going.
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Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
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If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.
quote by Peter Sellers
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Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.
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I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.
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I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.
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There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
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There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.
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Peter Sellers constantly reinvented himself.
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Conversation is like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.
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I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.
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I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.
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Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.
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Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds.
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David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character.
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To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.
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