"I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing."
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"Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume."
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"I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy."
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"All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves."
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"I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor."
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"Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession."
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"I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now."
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"No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good."
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"Maybe that's partly why I'm an actor, I'm a fairly empathetic, emotional person, so I get very, very involved when it's really, really great when I'm watching - so it takes me a second to click back into reality again."
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"When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds."
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"Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part."
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"I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor."
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"I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it."
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"I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don't."
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"Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time."
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"I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can."
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"Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor."
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"For some directors, I'm the actor from hell."
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"When I first started out, I was a bad actor."
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"An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with."
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