"It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying."

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"It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying."

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"I've been a very lucky actor."

Bob Newhart, American Comedian

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"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."

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"In live stage, the actor lives."

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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've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."

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"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense."

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"So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way."

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"Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews."

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"To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me."

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"As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors."

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Explore more quotes by Helena Bonham Carter

"I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image."

Change

"With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town."

Work

"Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way."

Confidence

"The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling."

Mind

"I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me."

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"Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room."

People

"I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone."

Hate

"I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person."

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"I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!"

Wind

"What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality."

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