"Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really."

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"Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really."

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"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."

"It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying."

"The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage."

"I am an actor through and through."

"It confirms for me that we did something on Days that meant something. We had our ups and downs, but Missy and I and some of the other actors, created something that was really memorable."

"I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen."

"If I was going to be broke I decided I might as well be with actors as anyone else. They were cheerful idiots and seemed to take it better."

"The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow."

"Actors cannot go on for over running around the trees."

"Every actor wants to direct."

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"I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be."

"Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!"

"We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader."