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Anthony Michael Hall

"You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line."

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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

"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

"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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Donna Grant

"As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions."

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Donna Grant

"It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity."

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Donna Grant

"I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans."

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Donna Grant

"I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else."

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Donna Grant

"Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood."

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Donna Grant

"Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead."

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Donna Grant

"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"So I think it's fair to say it's even more of a challenge for some of these actors that are coming up, because there's such a pressure to look good, to be sexy and be palatable to people on whatever level."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"There are people who do De Niro and Walken impersonations."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"But on this show, it's a good question because in the 35 shows that we've done now, I've really made a consistent effort to really shadow the directors because in many ways they have to be more prepared than feature directors."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"That, we encourage, and I think we're doing a pretty good job with the website and also the DVD, like the first season came out and the second season's being prepared now."

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Anthony Michael Hall
"I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess."

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