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"It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person."
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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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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
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"Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four."
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"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."
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"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."
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"Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors."
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"I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by."
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"I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in."
American
"Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing."
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"I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right."
Rap
"When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically."
Boys
"Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together."
Ideas
"In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me."
Character
"Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well."
Poetry
"I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type."
Virtue
"I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far."
Theatre
"The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian."
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