"An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut."

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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."

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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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"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."

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"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."

Billy Wilder, American Director

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"A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered."

Lee Strasberg, American Director

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"Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor."

Anthony Hopkins, Welsh Actor

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"An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make."

Elton John, English Musician

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"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."

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"What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency."

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"It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on."

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"Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen."

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"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."

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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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."

"A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered."

"Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor."

"An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make."

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"The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism."

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"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."

"I drink to make other people interesting."

"What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency."

"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."

"It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on."

"Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen."

"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."