"As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself."
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"Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor."
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"The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable."
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"Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word."
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"The better the actor, the more stupid he is."
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"I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays."
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"According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it."
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"Actors should never give interviews."
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"I'm always excited to be around other actors. I sometimes only get to work with myself, and it's so tedious. I was so excited to go to work every day, and we ran into work every day."
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"I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well."
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"The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage."
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"It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing."
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"Everything makes me nervous - except making films."
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"I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors."
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"The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors."
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"The most dangerous thing for an actor is to refuse to listen to anyone else, to feel you know more than anybody."
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"I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors."
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"What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily."
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"The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species."
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"I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else."
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