"I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor."

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"I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor."

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"I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops."

Jeffrey Wright, American Actor

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"As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary."

Sylvia Kristel, Dutch Actress

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"I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was."

Bill Murray, American Actor

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"Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood."

Vic Morrow, American Actor

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"Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of."

Zhang Ziyi, Chinese Actress

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"I've been a very lucky actor."

Bob Newhart, American Comedian

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"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives."

Marlon Brando, American Actor

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"I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality."

Christina Ricci, American Actress

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"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."

Thornton Wilder, American Novelist

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"Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything."

William H. Macy, American Actor

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Explore more quotes by Charles Dance

"It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like."

People

"We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare."

Dogs

"Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to."

Time

"When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out."

Work

"A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts."

Men

"You have to be selfish to be an actor."

Actor

"A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?"

Car

"If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay."

Dance

"I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence."

Confidence

"I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this."

Management