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"There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep."

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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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"I've been a very lucky actor."

Bob Newhart, American Comedian

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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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"Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now."

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American Actor

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"Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors."

Walter Winchell, American Journalist

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"I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am."

John Hawkes, American Actor

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"There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street."

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"I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though."

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"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."

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"I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else."

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"A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly."

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"When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'."

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"I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act."

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"I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that."

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"I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell."

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