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I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.

Actor Feel IFeel ILove
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The role of an actor is to make every character believable.
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Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

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Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

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Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

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I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.

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In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.
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The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

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In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

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I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.

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Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.

Actor Any Basically Believe
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What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire.

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Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
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I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

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I don't have an agenda where I do a comedy and say, 'I have to do a drama next,' or 'I am looking for an action movie now.'

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A lot of people say, 'What's the worst part about being an actor?' And the worst part is that you're not a musician.

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Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

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Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

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As far as skincare goes, I'm from the school of 'you are what you eat.' I always promote a vegan lifestyle, not just because it's great for our environment and for humanity, but because if you cut out dairy, for example, there's scientific proof that it can actually help your complexion.

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I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.
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I just think the less you know about an actor, the more serious you'll take them as an actor because they will disappear a little bit.

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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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My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor.

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From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

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If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective.

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I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
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My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.

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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

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I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

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There is no legitimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.

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If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.

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The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

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We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Actually Being Comfortable People
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The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

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If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities… the expression of love… then life itself loses its meaning.

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As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with.

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To go from playing Jack Startz in 'Behind the Candelabra' to playing JFK in the same year, I have now operated at the far ends of my range as an actor.

Actor Behind Ends Far
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Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.

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If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.

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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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Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
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It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.

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Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to write first thing in the morning, every day. But sometimes I'm called to set before the sun comes up, or I've worked late the night before, or I'm on a plane.

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An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Able Actor Create Hand
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It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

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