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• An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.

  Marlon Brando

  Inspirational, Motivational, Order

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

  Joseph Barbera

  Play, Rats, Convinced

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.

  Felicity Huffman

  Married, Fantastic

  "Hoffman, Witherspoon capture SAG Awards". www.today.com. January 30, 2006.

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• I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.

  Josh Holloway

  Stars, Independent, Seven

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• People should realize that I shot a Coke commercial back in 1986. So, you know, I've been around a long time. I carry my Screen Actors Guild Card.

  Kato Kaelin

  Long, People, Cards

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

  Matthew Modine

  Thinking, Used, Frank

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• So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

  Patrick Macnee

  Writing, Play, Skills

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• Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

  Donal Logue

  Kids, Stuff, Imagine

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

  Franka Potente

  Trying, Directors, Lame

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Actors always have opinions.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Opinion

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• In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

  Kelly Lynch

  Directors, Body, Want

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• I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.

  Nick Stahl

  Men, Thinking, Respectful

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• I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.

  Terence Stamp

  Girl, Cameras, Way

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• I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters.

  Thomas Lennon

  Character, Shows, Wells

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• It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Feel Good, Als, Feels

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• If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

  Olivier Martinez

  Boxers, Compare, Profession

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• It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

  Christian Bale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, there's a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor you'll be. You'll have more to pull on.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Acting, Culture, Study

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• I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.

  Jennifer Sky

  Glasses, People, Kind

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• Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

  Bruce Davison

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• Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Character, Exercise

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• The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

  Gloria Swanson

  Sound, Shifting, Foolish

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• This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an actor - I feel like Mary Tyler Moore throwing her friggin' hat in the air.

  Christopher Meloni

  Dream, New York, Air

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• It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!

  Mark Rydell

  Interesting, Directors, Agents

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• I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Character, Thinking, Kind

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