"An actor has to embody a role."

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"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."

Marie Windsor, American Actress

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"I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that."

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"There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them."

Kenneth Branagh, Irish Actor

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"When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world."

Bruce Dern, American Actor

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"It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom."

Nicole Sullivan, American Actress

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"Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road."

Buffalo Bill, American Celebrity

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"All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor."

Harrison Ford, American Actor

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"Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained."

Jason Statham, British Actor

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"For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared."

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"I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent."

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"Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business."

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"Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles."

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"But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is."

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"Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society."

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"The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them."

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"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

"I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that."

"There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them."

"When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world."

"It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom."

"Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road."

"All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor."

"Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained."

"For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared."

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"I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent."

"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."

"Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business."

"Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles."

"But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is."

"The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level."

"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."

"It's much easier to work with an unknown."

"Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society."

"The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them."