"I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable."

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"I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable."

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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

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"I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

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"We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

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"The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

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"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

Richard Donner, American Director

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"For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared."

Jena Malone, American Actress

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"A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing."

Donna Mills, American Actress

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"I'm a rapper trying to be an actor."

Method Man, American Musician

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"I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it."

Richard Gere, American Actor

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"It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera."

Fred Savage, American Actor

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"Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor."

Humor

"I'd sleep under a Vermeer."

Sleep

"I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home."

Home

"It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows."

Time

"I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't."

People

"I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20."

Time

"If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too."

Kids

"Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective."

Awards

"If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare."

Work

"I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest."

Earth