"A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening."

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"A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening."

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"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."

Dustin Hoffman, American Actor

Actor, School

"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."

Sean William Scott, American Actor

Actor, Racing, World

"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."

Francois Truffaut, French Director

Actor, Lying

"As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions."

Lavrenti Lopes, Indian Actor

Actor, Mind, Play

"It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity."

Ben Kingsley, English Actor

Actor, Being, Celebrity, Charity

"I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

Actor, Actors, American

"I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else."

James Lipton, American Educator

Actor, Being, Reason

"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

Actor, Actors, France, Hollywood, Production

"Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead."

Louise Brooks, American Actress

Actor, Living, Present

"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."

Trevor Nunn, English Director

Actor, Feeling, Shakespeare

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"I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that."

People, Now

"A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening."

Actor,

"I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way."

Life, Work

"I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate."

Climate, Needs, Tolerance, World

"You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick."

People,

"That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone."

Opportunity,

"Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything."

Hollywood,

"Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part."

Actors,

"I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved."

Time, Logic, Numbers, Sensibility

"It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS."

People, Dying, Suffering