"I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director."

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"I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director."

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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."

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"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."

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"We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor."

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"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an 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."

Jena Malone, American Actress

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"A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing."

Donna Mills, American Actress

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"The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC."

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"I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it."

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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."

"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."

"We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor."

"The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor."

"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

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

"A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing."

"I'm a rapper trying to be an actor."

"The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC."

"I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it."

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"And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten."

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"I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor."

"I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally."

"I have to watch the news or my day is not complete."

"I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer."

"But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds."

"You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead."