"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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"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."

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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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"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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"I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this."

Michael York, British Actor

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

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"Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy."

Thomas Jane, American Actor

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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."

"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."

"I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this."

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

"Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy."

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"We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love."

"Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter."

"Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood."

"A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife."

"Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese."

"I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him."

"The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows."

"I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion."

"There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should."