"I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself."

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"I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself."

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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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"Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops."

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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

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"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for."

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"I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor."

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"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."

Jim Jarmusch, American Director

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"Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is."

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"Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point."

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"Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far."

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"I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside."

Life

"For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'"

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"I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with."

People

"I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed."

Time

"As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days."

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"After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again."

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"I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight."

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"The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors."

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"I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent."

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