"I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor."

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"I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor."

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"I've been a very lucky actor."

Bob Newhart, American Comedian

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"I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am."

John Hawkes, American Actor

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"In live stage, the actor lives."

Peter Boyle, American 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

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"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."

Peter Farrelly, American Director

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"So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way."

Uwe Boll, German Director

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"Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews."

Barry Pepper, Canadian Actor

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"To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me."

Stephen Hopkins, American Politician

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"As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors."

Chow Yun Fat, Chinese Actor

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"A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it."

Tony Scott, British Director

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"My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem."

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"I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me."

Being

"I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling."

Feelings

"I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true."

Beauty

"I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place."

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"I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college."

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"My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive."

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"I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do."

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"Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick."

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"Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me."

Beauty