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Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.

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Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

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I miss working with great actors, working with great directors

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Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

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There are quite a few actors in the business who are much more difficult than kids or monkeys.

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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

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I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.

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I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

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That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

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I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.

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I think actors get too comfortable. I like being uncomfortable as an actor because it keeps you alive. I don't know, I think it's important.

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A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them.

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Don’t be deceived by what happens on social media. Obviously, there is something else actors are doing, perhaps other businesses to shore up their income.

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The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

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I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors.

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Election year, thats when politicians become ACTORS, we’ll see how humble they’ll get, we’ll see how getting into POWER is all they care about, they will do anything. Come to your doorstep with oil & rice for your vote (with cameras) off course to win points.

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I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

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Young people must feel that they can be real actors in our economy and be creative and be imaginative and be innovative.

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That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

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When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

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I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.

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As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.

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I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

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I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.

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When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you're in the way.

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I know I've said it before in interviews, but the idea that all actors have their eye on some sort of prize - it being an Oscar, or fame, or whatever - not all actors I know are like that.

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The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

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Diversity needs to operate on every level. It's great that the Oscars have highlighted it, but black actors getting nominated shouldn't be the only result. There's so much more that needs to be done.

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I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.

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I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

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It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

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The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

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When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.

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I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
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The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.

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I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It's more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.

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There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.

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I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Actor All My Life Athlete Been
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For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

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We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

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I believe one of the critical factors for ensuring success is to trust those you have appointed to lead your business.

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We are in touch with all the actors in this process, the private sector and our medical people to try to get this ready as quickly as possible so that the very clear problem and hardship that these evacuees are now faced with will really be mitigated as much as possible.

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Where two or three actors are gathered on TV. Nonstop Drama is expected.
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Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

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Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.

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