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"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 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

"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

"The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards."

Elia Kazan, American Director

Actor, First

"An actor has to embody a role."

Taylor Hackford, American Director

Actor,

"I'm just back in line with every other actor looking for a job right now and keeping my fingers crossed."

Joe Lando, American Actor

Actor, Job, Now, Right

"Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up."

Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

Actor, Disney, Tears

"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

Actor, Nerves

"I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

Actor, Actors, Artist, Artists, Writers

"A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors."

Colin Henry Wilson, British Writer

Actor, Actors, Play

Explore more quotes by Sandra Oh

"I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited."

Woman

"I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about."

Work

"I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb."

People

"As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna."

Work

"In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know."

Education

"I think all women should learn how to strip. It's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do."

Woman

"A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white."

People

"And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food."

Food

"Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard."

Actor