"I am proud to be an actor."

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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."

Jim Jarmusch, American Director

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"The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards."

Elia Kazan, American Director

Actor, First

"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

Actor, Actors, Artist, Artists, Writers

"I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'."

Christopher Judge, American Actor

Actor, Mind

"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."

Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian Director

Actor, Actors, Film, Space

"Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing."

Ray Liotta, American Actor

Actor, Actors, Today

"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

Actor, Want

"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."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

Actor, Indecision, Will

"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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"But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club."

Boxing

"The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others."

Success

"In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM."

Time

"I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them."

Wisdom

"Acting is something I love."

Love

"When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again."

People

"When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building."

Actor

"I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me."

Birthday

"I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities."

Work

"Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College."

College