A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk. - Alec Guinness

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Movies are fun because it's usually anywhere from a month to six months that you're filming and you can really connect to some great people and have a lot of fun and go some cool places.

Alec Guinness

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

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An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

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Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

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An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

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We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European.

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I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

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Movies are fun because it's usually anywhere from a month to six months that you're filming and you can really connect to some great people and have a lot of fun and go some cool places.

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Shenae Grimes

When I go outside in the morning for coffee, I'm not going to spend forty-five minutes getting ready. I just don't care.

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David Milch

My idea of storytelling is-I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn't do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision of a snake swallowing its tail. So he told his students about it and they said, 'Not bad, you go to sleep and you wake up with that. ' And he said, 'Visions come to prepared spirits. ' The way Billy Wilder put it was 'The muse has to know where to find you. '

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Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

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Eugene O'Neill

If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

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