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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.

Actor Being Dad Focus
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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.

About Actor Because Body
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I'm not an aspiring young actor; I'm a storyteller who made it late in life, and I'm therefore an inspiration to everyone who thinks that, at 23, if you're not in the Backstreet Boys, then you're never gonna make it.

Actor Aspiring Boy Everyone
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My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.

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

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

Actor Approval Had Need
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Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way - it's just an innate kind of merging.

Any Bleed Character Creepy
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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.

About Actor Being Lot
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All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

Actor Really Wanted Working
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I wanna work with good people. I don't want to work with screaming, yelling directors who've got daddy issues. I just don't want to deal with those guys.

Daddy Deal Directors Good
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Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience
Perfect Quality Cleanliness Hallmark
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.

Administrative Am Appoint Benefit
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You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

Director Experiences Just Know
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My own father flipped out on me when I told him we decided to ditch our doctor and go with a midwife instead.

Decided Ditch Doctor Father
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When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.

Came Died Disease Doctors
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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.

God Write Comedy Bad actors
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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.

Actor Company Directors Each
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I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.
Actor Hermit Kind Life
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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?

Actor Corner Fun IThink
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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?

About Actor Anything Control
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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.

Able Actor Admire Camera
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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.

About Actor Because 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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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.

Actor Directors Film FilmSchool
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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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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Any Dead Dream Drop
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The ideal director does not exist, every director is a work in progress…the older you get, the better your craft, unless you are a banana.

Ideal director Work In progress
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I tell stories of people the world needs to hear. I am a projector of whatever they are trying to communicate and that is where my satisfaction lies.

Tell stories Hear Projector Satisfaction
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Do not fear the bigness of the challenge or situation. Pray for a heart big enough to confront it, and sure victory will be yours at the end…
Not fear Bigness Challenge Pray
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I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

Doctors General Good Good Ones
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
Doctor Funeral Had Live
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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.

Actor Another Anything Being
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I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.

Actually Amazed Anything Because
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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.

Actor Believed Capable Control
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Time is too precious to waste, but time is not the determining factor in your destiny. That is a partnership between you and your creator.
Time Precious Waste Factor
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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

An actor Playwright Hole
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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.

Actor Always Just Stop
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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.

Legitimate actor Powerful Movies
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I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.

Cosmetic Doctor Full Going
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The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.

About Aerobic Call Came
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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.

Actor Everybody Get Hang
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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.

Actor Goes Lot Pay
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If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.

Worst thing Nobody laughs Deal Factory
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It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

Hard work Movies Long hours Emotional
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I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Realized Director Horrible people Right
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The greater the trial, the sweeter the victory.

The greater Trial Sweeter Victory
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We must do what is necessary within the rules of ethics. Once Africa understands this, the values of integrity will become the norm, and will promote private sector development.

Do Necessary Rule Ethics
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