Alan Bates

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor. ↗

— Alan Bates

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I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people. ↗

— Alan Bates

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I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image. ↗

— Alan Bates

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I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you. ↗

— Alan Bates

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I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all. ↗

— Alan Bates

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No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants. ↗

— Alan Bates

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Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does. ↗

— Alan Bates

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People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do. ↗

— Alan Bates

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You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are. ↗

— Alan Bates

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You can't always go by the book, even in comedy. ↗

— Alan Bates

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