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"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."

Morgan Freeman, American Actor

Actor, Job, Nothing

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

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Actor,

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

Actor, Being

"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

"If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is."

Annabella Sciorra, American Actress

Actor, Care

"A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea."

Phyllis Battelle, American Journalist

Actor, Actors, Tea, Years

"But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor."

Ray Walston, American Actor

Actor, Difference

"You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor."

John Boorman, British Director

Actor,

"As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot."

Sanjay Dutt, Indian Actor

Actor, Dancing, Romantic, Years

"I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor."

Peter Jurasik, American Actor

Actor, Actors, Fact, Talking

Explore more quotes by John Thaw

"I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him."

End

"We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong."

Work

"I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester."

Job

"Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character."

Character

"I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him."

Being

"There is no more final end than death."

Death

"In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on."

Murder

"Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide."

Eye

"I'm not an instinctive actor."

Actor