"I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies."

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"So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

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"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."

Walter Hill, American Director

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"I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other."

Neil Innes, British Writer

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"So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies."

Ray Liotta, American Actor

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"Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that."

Aaron Eckhart, American Actor

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"Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically."

Aaron Eckhart, American Actor

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"That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years."

Thomas Lennon, American Actor

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"Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets."

Klaus Kinski, German Actor

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"When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way."

James Franco, American Actor

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"So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor."

"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."

"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."

"I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other."

"So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies."

"Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that."

"Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically."

"That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years."

"Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets."

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"If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers."

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"I don't really view communism as a bad thing."