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I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.

Peter Coyote

Actor

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

Alex Cox

Actor

Sense

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

Rob Corddry

Actor

Day

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.

Jackie Cooper

Actor

End

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

Sean Connery

Actor

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

But I loved the script to 7th Heaven and couldn't say no. It made me laugh and cry, and I was hooked. I'd love to know who turned it down, because I'm sure at least one other actor did. But I'm glad he did, whoever it was.

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

Stephen Collins

Actor

Will

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.