"Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real."
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"I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera."
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"I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more."
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"In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors."
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"The stock actor is a stage calamity"
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"To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle."
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"I'm going to be a great movie star some day."
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"I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying."
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"What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words."
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"Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted."
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"There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor."
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"I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination."
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"In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor."
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"With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is."
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"I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible."
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"There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry."
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"August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor."
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"Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience."
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"I never enjoyed working in a film."
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"I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part."
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