"The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with."
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"It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other."
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"I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor."
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"I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage."
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"I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor."
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"Someone's going to put the clothes on you, and part of being an actor is wearing costumes. Costumes tell you an awful lot about who you are, so you just, it's nothing."
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"If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour with capital through a universal credit system, we'll then have other kinds of actors on the economic scene different from what the existing capitalist world would allow us to bring out."
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"I never wanted to be an actor."
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"I try to be a good, diligent actor."
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"Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster."
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"It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a director, have to see the film as a whole. He must therefore collaborate selflessly, totally."
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"Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed."
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"I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things."
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"The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next."
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"I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff."
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"As an actor you really want to push yourself, and there's no better way than to do an intense drama."
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"My parents are proud of me being an actor."
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"The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared."
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"The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs."
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"You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act."
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