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I don't want to infantilize the actor I want to empower the actor. Actors can be many things, but all of the really good ones are really great storytellers, and I'm interested in that. If you're not interested in that as a director then you better be Stanley Kurbrick.

Paul Bettany

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Paul Bettany
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: May 27
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When I became a father acting sort of took the place of what I did in my free time and my children became the main focus. I play a lot and my children play. Both my sons - my daughter's still too young really - have surpassed me with their music skills, which is wildly irritating.
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Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.
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I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.
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The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.
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The world is split into two kinds of people, those who would go out for a drink with John Lennon, and those who`'d choose Paul McCartney... After The Beatles came back from India, Lennon wrote Happiness Is a Warm Gun and McCartney wrote Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. End of argument.
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I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.
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The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.
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I feel like the world we live in seems to be full of an increasingly grey area, but the culture that we live in seems to be getting really entrenched in black and white positions, and I think it's urgent to talk about that because it's going to kill us all.
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I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more.
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I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have.
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My experience of people is that they are infinitely forgivable.
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I was always waiting for the secret to be handed down to me. Ron Howard asked me what I was waiting for and I went, Ron, I'm waiting to know the secret. I keep feeling there's some sort of secret that's going to passed on from a director. He went, Oh no. There is none. You've just got to on and do it and make mistakes and figure it out.
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For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the rest of the cast.
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I come down as an actor and my marks are already laid out on the floor - somebody else organized what I'm going to do. I think, why am I here? And why I'm here is to express the words with some sort of vague emotion and make them seem real. I wanted to go back to how it was before.
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But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God its fantastic.
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I simply don't understand the refugee crisis. The history of humanity can be told through a story of migration and settlement. If I can't protect my family, I'm coming to where you are I'm just coming. It's a round world, and we've all got to get on with it and move on.
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Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.
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I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. I think religion does a lot for us but I can't quite believe it, alas... It's just a personal choice. I love the idea of heaven though. Who doesn't? It's lovely.
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I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.
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