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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

Actor, College, Eye, Theatre

"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."

Peter Boyle, American Actor

Actor,

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

Joseph Barbera, American Cartoonist

Actor, Play

"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."

Philip Seymour Hoffman, American Actor

Actor, Being, Restaurants

"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."

Dustin Hoffman, American Actor

Actor, School

"I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by."

Benicio Del Toro, American Actor

Actor, Theater

"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."

Sean William Scott, American Actor

Actor, Racing, World

"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"

Colin Firth, British Actor

Actor, Actors, Instinct, Party

"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."

Francois Truffaut, French Director

Actor, Lying

"TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that."

Rose Byrne, Australian Actress

Actor, Machine, Needs, states

Explore more quotes by Konstantin Stanislavisky

"The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it."

Wisdom

"Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws."

Actor

"Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art."

Art

"Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you."

Work

"Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation."

Talent

"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."

Theatre

"Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors."

Actor

"We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes."

Painting

"The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation."

Life