"When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building."

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"When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building."

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"I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was."

Bill Murray, American Actor

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"I've been a very lucky actor."

Bob Newhart, American Comedian

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"I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am."

John Hawkes, American Actor

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"In live stage, the actor lives."

Peter Boyle, American Actor

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"At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore."

Ryan Phillippe, American Actor

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"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

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"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."

Peter Farrelly, American Director

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"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense."

Elia Kazan, American Director

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"So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way."

Uwe Boll, German Director

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"Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews."

Barry Pepper, Canadian Actor

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"I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them."

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"In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM."

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"I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was."

"I've been a very lucky actor."

"I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am."

"In live stage, the actor lives."

"At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore."

"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."

"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."

"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense."

"So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way."

"Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews."

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"I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them."

"To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed."

"I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities."

"Acting is something I love."

"I pray and try every day to be a better actor."

"I'm not doing my work for constant success."

"Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint."

"I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me."

"In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM."

"I am proud to be an actor."