"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."

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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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"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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"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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"James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect."

Leslie Caron, French Actress

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"Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well."

Mario Lopez, American Actor

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"I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting."

David Keith, American Actor

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"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."

Satyajit Ray, Indian Director

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"Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone."

F. Murray Abraham, American Actor

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"The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore."

Dick Powell, American Actor

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"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."

Death

"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday."

Love

"I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for."

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"When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole."

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"There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head."

Nothing

"A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it."

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"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."

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"Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests."

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"Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day."

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"The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way."

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