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You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

I just love working with actors in general.

When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that.

Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.

Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.

Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.