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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

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"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

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

Christina Ricci, American Actress

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"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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"Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down."

Want

"What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world? Will I ever be satisfied? Can't I ever just rest?"

Makeup

"Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck."

Praise

"This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country."

Age

"But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie."

Love

"One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it."

Learning

"But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies."

University

"My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven."

First

"And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done."

Deals

"Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent."

Thought