"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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"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."

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

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"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

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

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"I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important."

Tony Goldwyn, American Actor

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"I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better."

Tony Goldwyn, American Actor

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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is."

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

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"I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'"

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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."

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

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

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

"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

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

"I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important."

"I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better."

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

"If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is."

Explore more quotes by Robert De Niro

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'"

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

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

"The talent is in the choices."