"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."

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"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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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"I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself."

"The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure."

"The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has."

"The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary."

"I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job."