"I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America."

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"I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America."

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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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"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."

Jim Jarmusch, American Director

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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."

Elia Kazan, American Director

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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."

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

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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."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

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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'."

Christopher Judge, American Actor

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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."

Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian Director

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

Ray Liotta, American Actor

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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."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

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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."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

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"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."

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"Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money."

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"Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film."

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"I want to sing for the broadest possible audience."

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"I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be."

Artist

"I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage."

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"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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'."

"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."

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

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

"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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"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."

"Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it."

"As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements."

"Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year."

"Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money."

"Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film."

"I want to sing for the broadest possible audience."

"I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be."

"I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage."

"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."