"I'm a ballplayer, not an actor."

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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

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

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"A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea."

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"James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect."

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"The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story."

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"Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well."

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"I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting."

David Keith, American Actor

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"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."

Satyajit Ray, Indian Director

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"Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone."

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"A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues."

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"I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink."

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"A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example."

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"I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way."

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"I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee."

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"If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could."

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"You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'"

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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

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

"A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea."

"James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect."

"The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story."

"Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well."

"I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting."

"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."

"Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone."

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"A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues."

"I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink."

"A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example."

"Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play."

"I'm a ballplayer, not an actor."

"I think there are some players born to play ball."

"I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way."

"I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee."

"If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could."

"You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'"