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

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

Actor, Being, Want

"Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops."

Christian Bale, Welsh Actor

Actor, Actors

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

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Actor,

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

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

Actor, Being

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

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Actor, College, Eye, Theatre

"I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for."

Christopher Parker, English Actor

Actor, Kids

"I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor."

Anthony LaPaglia, American Actor

Actor, Boys

"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."

Jim Jarmusch, American Director

Actor, Actors, Film, Fun, Want

"In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

Actor, Content, Paris

"I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy."

Bea Arthur, American Actress

Actor, Actors, Being, Comedy

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"Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence."

Silence

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

Time

"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."

Circumstance

"Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity."

Ability

"The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner."

Comedy

"Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

Time

"I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it."

Food

"He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation."

Character

"The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part."

Actor