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

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"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

"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."

Work

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

Career

"I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman."

Film

"I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused."

People

"I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing."

Love

"It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?"

Film

"How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?"

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