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I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

John Lithgow

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I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.

The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit.

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

Ted Levine

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So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.

Melissa Leo

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That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.

Melissa Leo

Actor

An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

Jack Lemon

Actor

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