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Michael Ironside

"I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."

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Donna Grant

"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

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Donna Grant

"Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four."

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Donna Grant

"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."

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Donna Grant

"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."

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Donna Grant

"I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by."

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Donna Grant

"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."

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Donna Grant

"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"

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Donna Grant

"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."

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Michael Ironside
"I want to make smart television."

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Michael Ironside
"I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since."

Actor

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Michael Ironside
"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."

Television

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Michael Ironside
"People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success."

Success

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Michael Ironside
"I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor."

Actor

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Michael Ironside
"When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die."

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Michael Ironside
"People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me."

People

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Michael Ironside
"I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things."

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Michael Ironside
"I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing."

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Michael Ironside
"My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom."

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