"I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that."

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"I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that."

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"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."

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"But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed."

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"I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show."

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"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

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"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."

Mike Figgis, English Director

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"No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic."

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"An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare."

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"I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda."

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"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

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"I talked to everyone about the project: actors and extras, members of the crew and passers by."

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"I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years."

Hollywood

"Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them."

Power

"My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question."

Faith

"In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot."

Television

"What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give."

Experience

"It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting."

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"When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy."

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"A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network."

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"If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated."

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"We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information."

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