"Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything."

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"Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything."

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

"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."

"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."

"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."

"I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by."

"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."

"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"

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