"When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that."

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How you prepare for a role is entirely your business in my point of view. There is little enough mystery anymore left in the world in the part of our profession, which should be clouded in mystery because it isn't in the public. You don't want the magician to show his tricks or how he did them do you? So I do think that is a very private thing that we actors should protect ourselves from.

— Christopher Plummer