"I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone."

Actor, Being

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"I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone."

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"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."

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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

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"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."

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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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"I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important."

Tony Goldwyn, American Actor

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"I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better."

Tony Goldwyn, American Actor

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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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"If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is."

Annabella Sciorra, American Actress

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"Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?"

Knowledge

"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."

Sense

"Audiences are audiences."

Audience

"Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general."

Work

"Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route."

Perception

"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."

Hope

"I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings."

God

"I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing."

Beauty

"You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it."

Time

"But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel."

Death