"I didn't intend to become an actor."

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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."

Sylvia Kristel, Dutch Actress

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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."

Bill Murray, American Actor

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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

Actor, Actors, France, Hollywood, Production

"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

Actor, Actors, Talk, Television

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

Christina Ricci, American Actress

Actor, Day, Present, Reality

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

Thornton Wilder, American Novelist

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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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"And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role."

Thought

"And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life."

Life

"I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays."

Day

"I love the stage."

Love

"I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much."

Father

"No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids."

Kids

"I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile."

Actor

"Well, I mean, you have an emotion, you want to express it. You don't just look in the camera and do it. You want to hide from the embarrassment of your brother saying you're not allowed to come into my town."

Brother

"On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience."

Truth

"Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me."

Money