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You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part. John McEnroe

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There are a lot of actors who try to get records made and try to make record deals, and everybody goes, 'Ugh.' It used to be expected in the entertainment business. I mean look at Sinatra, Bing Crosby. All these guys started out as singers. John Mellencamp

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I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now, I never play leading men. I'm that kamikaze comic that comes from the left, turns the table over, and leaves, or the hyper-intelligent yuppie scumbag if it's a drama. John Michael Higgins

I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later. John Michael Higgins

My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I've never waited a table. I taught some - I'll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there's some motor in me that needs to do that. John Michael Higgins

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If you're an actor, you get your eyes put out; you get everything done to you. John Mortimer

You Eyes Everything Out Put Get Done Your Actor

The only thing I'm nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven't seen. John Oliver

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But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness. John Podhoretz

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The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight. John Polanyi

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There's a slew of actors that I'd love to work with. I'd love to work with Gary Oldman. He seems like not only a solid dude and a good man, but a pretty inspired actor. John Pyper-Ferguson

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Something great about 'The Last Ship' is that it employs a lot of actors, and a lot of actors are getting work because of it, and all these people are in here, and all these artists are working together. John Pyper-Ferguson

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The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project. John Ratzenberger

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals. John Ratzenberger

Before Got Just Paid Actor

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals. John Ratzenberger

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How do you deal with giving yourself the options in the editing room for dealing with problems that come up from a shifting tone? It's trying to convince your actors to give you the genes and several versions to have more options in the editing room. John Requa

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Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because they're the Mr. Hyde of our own dreams. I've met a few real villains in my time, and they weren't the least bit sympathetic. John Rhys-Davies

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Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up! John Rhys-Davies

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I'm not actually sure that actors or artists should be allowed to have a family, because the focus you need, the egotism, the myopia, is just taking away from the relationship. John Rhys-Davies

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I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself. John Schlesinger

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them. John Simm

Birds Critics Write Affect Want Them Should Actor

As an actor, you see a sliver of how the show is made, but to see the actual writing process and the re-writing process and the casting process and art direction and set design - all of this is happening in a very intense period. John Slattery

I'm not an instinctive actor. John Thaw

Instinctive Actor

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