"The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process."

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"The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process."

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"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."

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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."

Stephen Rea, Irish 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 want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

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"The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor."

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"In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material."

Mike Figgis, English Director

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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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"For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared."

Jena Malone, American Actress

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"A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing."

Donna Mills, American Actress

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"I'm a rapper trying to be an actor."

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"We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8."

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"Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time."

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"The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is."

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"I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work."

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"How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception."

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"I think your self emerges more clearly over time."

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"For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends."

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"It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician."

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"I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you."

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