"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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"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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"You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub."

Keith Carradine, American Actor

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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."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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"I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else."

Ian McKellen, English Actor

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

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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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."

David Lynch, American Director

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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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"I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses."

Steven Soderbergh, American Director

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"It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them."

Miranda Otto, Australian Actress

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

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

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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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"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."

"You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub."

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

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

"I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else."

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

"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."

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

"I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses."

"It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them."

Explore more quotes by Robert De Niro

"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.'"

"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."

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

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

"The talent is in the choices."

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

"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."

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