"As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting."

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"As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting."

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"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."

Cameron Diaz, American Actress

Acting, Actor, Understanding

"Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll."

Brendan Fraser, American Actor

Acting, Forget

"My acting career helped pull me through the rough times."

Shirley Knight, American Actress

Acting, Career

"Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro."

Billy Crystal, American Comedian

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"Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day."

Stephen Fry, British Comedian

Acting, Actor, Day, Grave

"When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that."

James Dean, American Actor

Acting,

"But you're right, I did think about acting more and then decided against it."

Todd Solondz, American Writer

Acting, Right

"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."

Paul Reiser, American Comedian

Acting, Production

"Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career."

Beverley Mitchell, American Actress

Acting, Career, College, Trying

"You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me."

Dougray Scott, Scottish Actor

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"It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning."

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"The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors."

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"I like to see how I can do it for less money."

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"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."

"Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll."

"My acting career helped pull me through the rough times."

"Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro."

"Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day."

"When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that."

"But you're right, I did think about acting more and then decided against it."

"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."

"Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career."

"You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me."

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"I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time."

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"I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day."

"You gotta make the movie you want to make."

"I would rather just do the things I want to do."

"I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that."

"I was dissatisfied just being an actor."

"It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning."

"The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors."

"I like to see how I can do it for less money."