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When Dustin Hoffman asked Lawrence Olivier how he could play the evil Nazi dentist, without having made an in-depth study and put himself in the place of the man he was playing, Olivier said, "I act, dear boy, I act." Isn't that what we do? I've written two crime novels. I have never been a murderer or a policeman, but I can study how they work, and I can try to put myself in their position,
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Sep 02, 2026 03:11PM
When Dustin Hoffman asked Lawrence Olivier how he could play the evil Nazi dentist, without having made an in-depth study and put himself in the place of the man he was playing, Olivier said, "I act, dear boy, I act." Isn't that what we do? I've written two crime novels. I have never been a murderer or a policeman, but I can study how they work, and I can try to put myself in their position,
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