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"An actor has to embody a role."
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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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"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."
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"There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me."
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"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."
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"I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors."
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"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."
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"The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover."
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"One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor."
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"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."
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"A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered."
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"Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards."
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"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."
Film
"If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off."
People
"Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles."
Life
"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."
People
"I make films about working class people."
People
"I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that."
Music
"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance."
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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."
Business
"Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business."
Business
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