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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

World Start People One
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.

Actor Anything Approach Because
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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.

Singers Artists Role Audience
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Farmer Barn Grain
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I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

Actors Parking Garage Highway
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Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

Many Detractors Unsurprisingly Still
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For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!

About Actor Added Advantage
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Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors.

Obama Michelle Tell Me
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Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.

Application Arise Cause Determined
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The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.

Actor Also Always Career
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I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

Agents Cause Chemical Damage
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I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

Actor Bunch Despise Entails
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

Absolutely Actor Believe Bleed
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Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

About Actor Insecure Know
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I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

Actor Boxes Career Entire
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

Actor Going Good Good Movie
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

Actor Began Changed Joined
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You can blame outside factors or make excuses about why things didn't work out, but that doesn't change anything.

About Anything Blame Change
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.

Actors Like Watching Girls
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From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans.

Action Action Movie Actor Aggressive
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

Actor Body Control Enough
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.

Accepted Actor Along Couple
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Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

Because Actor Pretend Fake
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We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.

Writing Actors Horror
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Actors are one family over the entire world.
Actor Entire Entire World Family
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I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.

Actor Artists Because Believe
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

Actor Adjust Big Film
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

True Play Life Real
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

Act Acted Actor Celebrities
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And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.

Actor All Time As Far As Far
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Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

Actor Around Business Comedians
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I try to always motivate young kids who want to be singers or actors or whatever it is they want to be that anything is possible with hard work. It doesn't matter where you're from or what language you speak - as long as you work hard, you can achieve those goals.

Achieve Actor Always Anything
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.

Actor Agenda Never Political
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

Action Actor Aspect Chance
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

Actor Been Between Black
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

Actor Class Community Former
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
Actor Capitalist Exploited Less
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I love actors and I feel like, if you usually allow people some say, most people, if they start to feel comfortable, they're going to have a voice. If they feel heard, then they will give back 10 times as much to you.

Actor Allow Back Comfortable
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I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.

Actor Deal Doing I Love
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It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

Acting Actor Career Decided
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Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

Knowledge Object Factors Motivate
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I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

Empty Stage Actors Plays
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Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

Appreciated Being Capable Enormous
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I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

Actor Any Case Choose
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People learn from it; people learn from their mistakes through actors and I learn from people through acting too.

People Learn Mistakes Actors
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…I am very happy that right now, filmmakers now look past the complexion of actors and the focus is now on talents and what you can bring to the table.

Happy Filmmakers Complexion Actors
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I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

Actor Best Know Like
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
About Actor Care Get
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

Actor Comedy Cool Dramatic
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Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.

Been Dead Dreams Few
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