"Each actor requires a different language."
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"All actors should experience public failure."
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"Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day."
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"There is a difference when you work with actors who have worked on the stage. When we're out there in front of an audience eight times a week, you can't do it on your own."
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"There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York."
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"Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible."
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"I can't really attribute my success onscreen to any formula and suggest you "do this or that" to make it as an actor."
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"If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie."
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"As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real."
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"I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately."
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"I was working in computers when this stranger approached me out of the blue, saying I should become an actor. I took it as a gift from God, because I had been praying for clarity about what He wanted me to do, since I wasn't happy in computers."
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"I like to think that I've grown as an actor and things have changed, and I think so."
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"In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd."
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"In contrast to the inorganic thereness of lifeless matter, living beings are not mere appearances. To be alive means to be possessed by an urge toward self-display which answers the fact of one’s own appearingness. Living things make their appearance like actors on a stage set for them."
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"Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors."
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"A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good."
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"When you're an actor, your body isn't your own. Your body is part of a tool that you use. Everybody else there is using you as a tool, so they have access to those things, too."
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"I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor."
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"It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion. It was then I started thinking that, contrary to conventional wisdom, film was the artful medium for the actor, not the stage."
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"I never thought in terms of typing myself, because I wasn't that successful. After an actor has done a few pieces of work, his naïveté is the part of the craft he has to nurture most."
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