"Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience."

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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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"There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that."

Rider Strong, American Actor

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"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."

Frances McDormand, American Actress

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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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

George Jean Nathan, American Editor

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"You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there."

Adrian Grenier, American Actor

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"When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had."

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"We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it."

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"I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else."

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"I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I've done."

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"I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that."

"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."

"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

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

"You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there."

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"I'm living in L.A. but my heart's in Vancouver."

"I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre."

"Everything has an end."

"I really enjoy the people. I find them to be better educated and wittier."

"Comedy and drama are both challenging to me."

"When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had."

"We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it."

"I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else."

"I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I've done."

"I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life."