"As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams."

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"As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams."

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Tony Goldwyn, American Actor

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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

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"As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams."

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"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."

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

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

"I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important."

"I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better."

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

"If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is."

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"I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life."

"I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice."

"The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live."

"One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either."

"I found the writing arena to be much less competitive."

"I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing."

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"As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams."