I was an acting opera singer, and that's one of the reasons I left opera.
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The two things an actor dreads most are children and dogs.
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The two things an actor dreads most are children and dogs.
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For years, they cast me in these dumb straight roles of businessmen in three-piece suits.
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It's nice to be in demand.
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I brought what I could of myself to this thing, because between Henry Warnimont and I - not a hell of a lot of difference.
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It should be easier to play opposite my wife.
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I'm not foreign enough to play foreigners... I have sort of a mid-Atlantic British accent that puts me in the middle of everything, so they don't know quite where to put me.
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To build a character like Henry Warnimont required a few weeks and months of work. It turned out he was basically a very kind and generous man, which he covered up with his surface gruffness and surface bluster. And the kind of hopeless quality, that 'everything goes wrong' kind of thing.