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

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"I've been a very lucky actor."

Bob Newhart, American Comedian

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"I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am."

John Hawkes, American Actor

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"In live stage, the actor lives."

Peter Boyle, American 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've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."

Peter Farrelly, American Director

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"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense."

Elia Kazan, American Director

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"So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way."

Uwe Boll, German Director

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"Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews."

Barry Pepper, Canadian Actor

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"To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me."

Stephen Hopkins, American Politician

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"As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors."

Chow Yun Fat, Chinese Actor

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"If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world."

Talent

"I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries."

Driving

"That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you."

Trust

"Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film."

Trust

"It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important."

Time

"First cuts are a bitch for a director, because it's been so many months and you put your trust in your editor and you're going to see your film assembled for the first time. You look at it and go, This is terrible. I hate it."

Trust

"When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work."

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"I've been a very lucky actor."

"I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am."

"In live stage, the actor lives."

"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."

"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."

"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense."

"So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way."

"Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews."

"To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me."

"As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors."

Explore more quotes by Richard Donner

"If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world."

"I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries."

"That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you."

"Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film."

"It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important."

"First cuts are a bitch for a director, because it's been so many months and you put your trust in your editor and you're going to see your film assembled for the first time. You look at it and go, This is terrible. I hate it."

"When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work."

"I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company."

"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."

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