"I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality."

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"I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality."

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"Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has."

Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

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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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"Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor."

Anthony Hopkins, Welsh Actor

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"Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger."

Greta Scacchi, Italian Actress

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"When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world."

Bruce Dern, American Actor

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"Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this."

Eileen Brennan, American Artist

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"A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were."

Izabella Scorupco, Polish Actress

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"I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do."

Don Knotts, American Actor

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"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."

Tom Baker, British Actor

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"When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next."

Hugh Grant, English Actor

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"It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them."

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"I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum."

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"You'll have time to rest when you're dead."

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"When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home."

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"You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut."

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"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price."

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"Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has."

"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."

"Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor."

"Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger."

"When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world."

"Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this."

"A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were."

"I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do."

"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."

"When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next."

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"It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them."

"I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum."

"You'll have time to rest when you're dead."

"When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home."

"I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies."

"The talent is in the choices."

"There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself."

"There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work."

"You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut."

"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price."