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Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.

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Kevin Kline
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: October 24
Film Actor
Film Director
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Theatrical Director
Voice Actor
St. Louis
Missouri
Kevin Delaney Kline
Kevin D. Kline
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The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.
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Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God! That's not what I saw necessarily but I don't think any two people see the same movie.
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I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.
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I've done a couple of movies for scale, and it's the only way to get a lot of these independent movies made. The actors negotiate deals where they're given just enough money to live on during the filming, but then they participate in the back-end. If the movie suddenly makes a gazillion dollars, we'll participate in that profit.
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People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.
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I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.
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I like variety, which is frustrating. But I've always been picky. I was afraid Pirates would be too much like Twentieth Century, broad comedy. But my agent talked me into it. I was spoiled by the range of a repertory theater.
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But you have to trust your instincts. Because you're not going to try it 20 different ways during rehearsal. You'll try it two or three different ways, maybe, but then you've got five other scenes you're shooting that day. You've got to keep going.
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It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.
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You know, actors are fans, too. And talent is very attractive to me.
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Ambition without contribution is of no significance.
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We're all animals, but we're a different sort of animal. Maybe they're better than us. They're more loyal. They're more pure. They're more simple. They're not neurotic. Well, there are some neurotic dogs.
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I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.
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I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine.
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It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
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