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

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

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"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."

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"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

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

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

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

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"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."

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"The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers."

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"An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening."

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"I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage."

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"But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being."

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"We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex."

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

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"My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave."

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

Time

"My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave."

Belief

"I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit."

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"Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks."

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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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"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."

Kids