"Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness."

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"Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness."

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"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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

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"Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on."

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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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"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."

Morgan Freeman, American Actor

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"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."

Marie Windsor, American Actress

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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

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"We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that."

Jillian Bach, American Actress

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"I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that."

Orlando Bloom, English Actor

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"It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it."

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"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings."

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"One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it."

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"The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."

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"Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it."

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"I cry out for order and find it only in art."

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"When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee."

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