Ask questions. Listen. Be quiet. Be willing to make a fool of yourself. Be willing to be completely … - Bill Oberst Jr.

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Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.

Bill Oberst Jr.

Ask questions. Listen. Be quiet. Be willing to make a fool of yourself. Be willing to be completely exposed and to give all you've got and to be rejected for your troubles. But expect magic to happen. It just might. And don't worry about winning the audition, just win the room.

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Take every job. Learn everybody's name. Show up early. Know who you are and know who you're not. Stop dreaming and start trying.

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Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.

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If someone asked for advice on being an actor I'd say "Don't. It's a hard life. " And if they walked away I'd be happy to have spared them years of misery.

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I want to be Lon Chaney. I want to be Karloff. I want to help people escape the mundane world. I want to make their skins crawl. And I want them to love it every bit as much as I do.

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I love swimming in the darker seas, so even if I play a noble guy (well, like Lincoln for instance) I am pre-disposed to try and show the conflict; the regret; the less-than-perfect choices that any human faces. That's what I like and it seems to be what the camera likes to see me do.

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