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I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.

Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.

The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

Actors don't have real value.

Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.