"The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor."

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"The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor."

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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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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."

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

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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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"I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars."

"With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower."

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"How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?"

"I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it."

"I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick."

"Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely."

"We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves."

"No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association."