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Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

Dino De Laurentiis

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.

Dino De Laurentiis

I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.

Anthony LaPaglia

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.

The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.

I don't like to repeat myself as an actor.

I'm just back in line with every other actor looking for a job right now and keeping my fingers crossed.

I feel that I am a good actor.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

Christine Lahti

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

Christine Lahti

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.