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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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Stories about race and identity pique my interest for obvious reasons. That's in my body, my brain, my history, my memories - it's all part of my toolbox as an actor.

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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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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

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The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

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God is building inside you, the kind of faith that gives the devil a headache. You shall be a chain breaker and a burden remover. You shall be unstoppable and indomitable. It's your time for victory!

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The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development.

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Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

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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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I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

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I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

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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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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

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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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I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.

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Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.

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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

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Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

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Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

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Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.

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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.

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To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

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An actor should be judged by his performance only.

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Distance is indeed never a barrier to the move of the spirit. Where Doctors and science fails, God never fails.
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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before

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Although our fight will be long and hard, our people are resolved to fight till final victory.

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A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.

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When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

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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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One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

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You work really hard to make it, and maybe you get some acclaim, but then you realize there are certain limitations as an actor.

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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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If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.
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Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.
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Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my bounds, I tried to control things that were out of my purview as an actor and in some cases even tried to direct my scenes because I felt I knew how they should run rather than trust the director.

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When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

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I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

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Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

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When I sign on for a project, I'm there to give the director all the material he or she might need to tell their story, and that's the number one priority.

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I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.

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You don't have to like an actor to do a scene with him. You don't have to like a director. But it's just better if you do. And I think, you know, you've got to begin that with respect.

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I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it.

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I look for the role that excites me and work with whoever that director happens to be, wherever he wants to shoot the film.

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