"There are no small parts. Only small actors."

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"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."

Christine Lahti, American Actress

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

Richard Donner, American Director

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"There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me."

Bela Lugosi, Austrian Actor

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"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."

Richard Donner, American Director

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"I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors."

Joe Pantoliano, American Actor

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"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."

Satyajit Ray, Indian Director

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

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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"I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream."

Jane Birkin, English Actress

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"The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover."

Christine Lahti, American Actress

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"An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman."

Richard Burton, Welsh Actor

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"He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library."

Philosophy, Thought, Ownership, Idea, Mind

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

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"He took her in his arms and lifted her up. She looked at him and he noticed only now that her eyes were full of tears. He pressed her to him. She understood that he loved her and this suddenly filled her with sadness. She felt sad that he loved her so much, and she felt like crying."

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"A person's destiny often ends before his death."

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"The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish."

Time, Being, Existence, Light

"Dreaming is not only an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs. Herein lies the danger. If dreams were beautiful, they would quickly be forgotten."

Dreams, Dream, Imagination, Beauty, Danger

"Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us."

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"I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be."

Identity, Youth, Self, Truth

"(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations."

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"Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding."

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