"An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer."
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"In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator."
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"Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass."
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"That's really just the worst part of life really, you get bracketed somewhere and the next thing you know people are saying, 'No. No. That's not the type. Get me so and so.' I'm not a type. I'm an actor."
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"My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel."
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"Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying."
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"We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?"
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"I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor."
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"Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance."
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"Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell."
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"I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived."
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"In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer."
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"I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be - well, somebody else. Which is probably why I wanted to act."
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"An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?"
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"Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time."
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"Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible."
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"I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star."
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"I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance."
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"There are too many stars and too few actors."
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"I was very young when I was in RNBDJ and that journey had enabled me as an actor. I am not very confident of my growth as an actor but I am very confident of my growth as a person."
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