"I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody."

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"I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody."

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"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."

Ben Kingsley, English Actor

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"It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying."

Helena Bonham Carter, British Actress

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"The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage."

Ethel Barrymore, American Actress

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"I am an actor through and through."

Dougray Scott, Scottish Actor

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"It confirms for me that we did something on Days that meant something. We had our ups and downs, but Missy and I and some of the other actors, created something that was really memorable."

Matthew Ashford, American Actor

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"I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen."

Jerry Falwell, American Clergyman

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"If I was going to be broke I decided I might as well be with actors as anyone else. They were cheerful idiots and seemed to take it better."

Peter Finch, English Actor

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"The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow."

Harrison Ford, American Actor

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"Actors cannot go on for over running around the trees."

Rajendra Prasad, Indian Statesman

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"Every actor wants to direct."

Theodore Bikel, Austrian Actor

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"Is this a proposal? I'm married now, you know."

Now

"I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear."

Mistake

"If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?"

Life

"Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's bad. I think the film could have been a lot better."

Film

"That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one."

Love

"'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties."

Nothing

"I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was."

Time

"I didn't ever think of it as a social thing at the time. I took it as a good story. Maybe because I've always been kind of progressive so I never thought of it, you know."

Time

"And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully."

Time

"I was pleased when the picture was over I fit in all right and I spoke well enough as I said before, cause I was scared to death there for a minute. I mean, you're doing a scene with somebody like that or they're watching you or something, you'd better come up with something."

Death