"I know many great actors who have small heads."

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"I know many great actors who have small heads."

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"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."

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"You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub."

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"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."

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"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."

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"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."

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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

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"I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this."

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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."

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"Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy."

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"The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright."

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"I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway."

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"If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew."

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"If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive."

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"I think people are always looking for a good comedy."

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"These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like."

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"I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality."

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"The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money."

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