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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.

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.

My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne.

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

It's of course understandable that people want to know about actors in their favourite series.

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.