"If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession."

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"If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession."

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"I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops."

Jeffrey Wright, American Actor

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"As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary."

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"I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was."

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"Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood."

Vic Morrow, American Actor

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"Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of."

Zhang Ziyi, Chinese Actress

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"I've been a very lucky actor."

Bob Newhart, American Comedian

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"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives."

Marlon Brando, American Actor

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"I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality."

Christina Ricci, American Actress

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"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."

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"Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything."

William H. Macy, American Actor

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"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."

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"I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."

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"I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't."

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"Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together."

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"I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most."

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"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."

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"Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country."

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"I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops."

"As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary."

"I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was."

"Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood."

"Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of."

"I've been a very lucky actor."

"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives."

"I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality."

"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."

"Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything."

Explore more quotes by Uta Hagen

"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."

"I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."

"I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in."

"Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education."

"Awards don't really mean much."

"I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't."

"Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together."

"I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most."

"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."

"Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country."