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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.


Jean Cocteau
I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them.
Christian Bale
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I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. If you have it inside, you don't need to show too much. People pick up on things.
Sigourney Weaver
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A lot of actors work too much. There comes a point where it's hard to mask your basic personality. It's a bit like a relationship. If you're always there, they can't desire you.
Jacqueline Bisset
Acting is a tough, difficult job with long unsociable hours, although it can be a brilliant job, too. I don't want to complain too much, as nurses, farmers and teachers are out working long hours.
Rhys Ifans
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It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.
Eddie Campbell
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Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.


Michael Fassbender
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Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.
Howard Hawks
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I don't ask other artists for too much advice.


Blake Shelton
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Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?
Peyton Manning
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We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
Lance Bass
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Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.
Missy Franklin
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
Nadia Comaneci
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I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.


Daniel Radcliffe
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.


Zendaya
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But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.


Linford Christie
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As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.


Ray Stevenson
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Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country.
Aravind Adiga
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If you want to be an actor, you should keep confident. Don't get too much of an ego and become not humble. But you should have esteem and not feel bad when you don't book something. So I think you should just stay humble, but you also need to have some esteem to make yourself keep going.
Nolan Gould
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When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to worry about interacting too much with other people creatively. Asserting myself in that way was not really a strong point for me.
Patty Griffin
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