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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

Actor, Actors, Being, Film

"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

Actor, Collaboration, Mistakes, Nothing

"I've been a very lucky actor."

Bob Newhart, American Comedian

Actor,

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

Christina Ricci, American Actress

Actor, Day, Present, Reality

"Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors."

Walter Winchell, American Journalist

Actor, Actors, Hollywood

"I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am."

John Hawkes, American Actor

Actor, Help, Training

"Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin."

Patrice Leconte, French Director

Actor, Actors, Trying

"In live stage, the actor lives."

Peter Boyle, American Actor

Actor,

"At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore."

Ryan Phillippe, American Actor

Actor,

"I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

Actor, Actors, Artist, Artists, Writers

Explore more quotes by John Thaw

"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

"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

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

Murder

"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

"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

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

Eye

"I'm not an instinctive actor."

Actor