"Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that."

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"Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that."

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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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real."

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"I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job."

Roddy McDowall, British Actor

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"An actor has to embody a role."

Taylor Hackford, American Director

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"It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors."

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"I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting."

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"I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills."

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"Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice."

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"It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle."

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"My passion and energy get mistaken for anger."

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"I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved."

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"My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music."

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"It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that."

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"I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him."

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