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"I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor."
"My kind of director is an actor-director who writes."
"An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham."
"When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way."
"I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story."
"a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine."
"All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing."
"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives."
"Working with any actor is like working with a monkey."
"We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold."
"I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded."
"I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough."
"In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth."
"I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point."
"Actors aren't fighters. They don't know how to throw a punch. So, there's a lot of hitting in the face. I'd much rather fight with a stuntman than another actor. I don't like fighting with other actors because somebody always ends up getting hurt."
"I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before."
"It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley."
"Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium."
"My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself."
"The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously."
