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"Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you're playing."
"If I can be a working actor, if I can be an actor and not have a day job, I'll be fine."
"I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process."
"I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun."
"A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors."
"If the director's a communist, whatever, he's a communist. All I care is that he directs. For the actor, the same thing. All you really care is that he comes in and performs."
"Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure."
"As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore. You still get a taste of life but it's not quite the same and there's something to be said for a more anonymous life."
"I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor."
"Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure."
"There are a lot of actors that are more talented than me at Second City who quit it before they even got to a paying status. Weird luck. I had no other option."
"I used to search and search for that actor or actress who's exactly what's in my head. But you have to realize you have to cast whoever's super talented and super funny, and then the character has to become at least partially theirs."
"I did not want to be an actor because my whole family did it-going into the family business was the last thing I wanted to do."
"I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't."
"Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?"
"I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with."
"It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer."
"We were all inspired by him as an actor and his iconography and thought, if we get somebody like Laurence Fishburne, we can tell a much more sophisticated, complicated version of Jack Crawford than we'd seen before as this large and in-charge and in-control guy, who is unflappable."
"I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me."
"Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult."
