"The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand."

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"The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand."

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"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."

Morgan Freeman, American Actor

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

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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"I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important."

Tony Goldwyn, American Actor

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"I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better."

Tony Goldwyn, American Actor

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

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is."

Annabella Sciorra, American Actress

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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."

Phyllis Battelle, American Journalist

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"But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor."

Ray Walston, American Actor

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"Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this."

Eileen Brennan, American Artist

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Explore more quotes by Laurence Olivier

"Have a very good reason for everything you do."

Reason,

"I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book."

Actor, Eyes

"I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act."

God, Gods, Act, Shakespeare

"My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself."

Film, Moments

"I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it."

Eye, Eyes, Open

"Lead the audience by the nose to the thought."

Thought,

"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult."

Acting, Occupation

"I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture."

Culture, Theater

"Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it."

Instinct,

"I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman."

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