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...Writing. I never really wanted to be an actor because I grew up watching my mother's career decline. Why would I have any illusions about the glamour of Hollywood or wanting to be a star? What I knew early on is that it all goes away. I grew up watching endings. Acting was never as enjoyable to me as it is to someone who hasn't seen it before...
Amanda suffers from acute culture shock before Graham (a smoldering and sensitive Jude Law) takes her frolicking in the English countryside. Iris does water aerobics with an old Hollywood screenwriter, Arthur Abbott (veteran actor Eli Wallach, “Mystic River”), whose creaky wisdom leads her to Miles (Jack Black, playing against type), a cultured score-composer who pens her a melody using “only the good notes...
...Moore: When I first came to New York I had every intention of being a theater actor, it just didn't turn out that way; I got more jobs in television and films. Frankly I hadn't seen anything that kind of moved me. When Sam [Mendes] first sent the script to me I was doing a film, I kept thinking about the play. I mentioned it to Kate [Winslet, Mendes's wife] at our kids' nursery school and the next day Sam showed up and said 'If you can commit to Broadway right now, we'll move...
...Just doing it, period, is a huge risk. If you talk to any actor they say, 'Why am I doing this?' It's terrifying, I can't eat. We're so afraid. I love it, but it's always terrifying, it's incredibly difficult and you always feel you're just about to fail...
...character actor. I'm not particularly worried about that. With any luck, there'll continue to be something for me to do. Anjelica Huston had this quote, she's like 'You'll continue to work, there's stuff for people to do. You're just not going to be the prettiest kitty in the litter any more.' Look at Meryl! She's got a career that all of us admire and envy, and she just keeps going and going...