"After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone."

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"After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone."

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

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"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."

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"The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards."

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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."

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"I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy."

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"I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'."

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"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."

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"Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing."

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"We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor."

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"The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor."

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"I rather go to see a good play than be in one."

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"As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct."

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"I just had a full body cleanse. And am eating right and exercising a lot."

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"Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me."

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"I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season."

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"I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life."

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"Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that."

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"I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It's especially with the play, which I can do because it's a limited run."

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"Does my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!"

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