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

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"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."

Cillian Murphy, Irish Actor

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"You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub."

Keith Carradine, American Actor

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"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."

John Schlesinger, British Director

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"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."

Emily Watson, English Actress

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"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."

Mike Figgis, English Director

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"I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this."

Michael York, British Actor

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

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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"I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since."

Michael Ironside, Canadian Actor

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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 didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?"

Debbie Allen, American Actress

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"Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value."

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"I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost."

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"Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote."

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"So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater."

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

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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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"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."

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"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy."

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