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

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"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."

Cillian Murphy, Irish Actor

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"You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub."

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"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."

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"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."

Emily Watson, English Actress

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"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."

Mike Figgis, English Director

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"There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that."

Rider Strong, American Actor

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"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."

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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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"You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there."

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"I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this."

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"The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people."

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"I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff."

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"I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage."

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"Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career."

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