"An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand."

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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."

Jim Jarmusch, American Director

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"The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards."

Elia Kazan, American 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."

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

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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."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

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"I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'."

Christopher Judge, American Actor

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"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."

Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian Director

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"Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing."

Ray Liotta, American Actor

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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."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

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"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."

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"Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas."

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"Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature."

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"Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness."

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"Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation."

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"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."

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"Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not."

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"So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil."

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"Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!"

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"People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy."

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"People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy."

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