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that Christian Slater's character dies from overacting."

It's refreshing, in the current climate of self-righteous politically-themed films, to hear an actor who understands the bigger picture: that acting usually isn't as influential as most of his peers seem to think. Of course, as Hopkins will turn 70 by the end of the year, he doesn't have a younger star's insecurities about whether or not fame will last. "I saw a film the other day, at a little theater up here near Lincoln Center," he says. "Great film. But I was sitting there in that depressing little movie theater, with the ice cream, and the popcorn, and the people coming in looking for seats, and there were about fifty people in there altogether, and I thought, so this is it. This is the great movie business. ...And life's the same way. Mel Blanc's epitaph was, 'That's all, folks.' I find it kind of comforting, that none of it is important. It seems important, but it's not."

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