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I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

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William Mapother
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: April 17
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I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.
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I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.
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It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose... You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen.
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I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.
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If you're going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You've got to keep working, and that's where a lot of the work is.
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Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.
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I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.
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One of the great things about having been on Lost is people coming up and feeling so enthusiastic about the show and saying, Oh it provided us so much entertainment, or It inspired conversations.
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They [teachers] beat it right out of me. Or they beat it into me and educated it out of me. I don't know that's an interesting question. The Catholic schools required work, so I think that may have been where the work ethic came from, in answer to the question of how my character may have been shaped.
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One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.
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So I'm here, and not being one for missed opportunities, I made a list of the casting directors in New York and mark off the ones I've already met over the years. The few remaining I asked my agent and manager, See if you can set up some meetings while I'm here.
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Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.
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I've made a number of independent films that didn't receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven't heard of, and as a result, I've conditioned myself to go into small independent films with the expectation that they will not, and therefore, I have to find my reward elsewhere.
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I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.
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Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the way you earn your living, and it's indelible. It's not like writing a script - I write as well - I can't do another draft, it's done.
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I do like taking on responsibility, sometimes too much. But I was aware of that early on and it's something that came up in the previous set of interviews, and that is the actor‛s contribution.
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I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.
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I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.
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If the question was did we want to delay the revelation?... Yeah, you want to delay it as long as possible because the audience knows that that moment is coming and you want to make them wait for it. They have to suffer a bit.
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I remember when I was working on Mission: Impossible 2, John Woo said, In Hong Kong, there's not much money and a lot of time. In Hollywood, a lot of money, not much time. Personally I'd prefer not much money, a lot of time.
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