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Actors Quote by Neil Simon

“I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.” quote by Neil Simon — Download Open image

“I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.”

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Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

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You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three…

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There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

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“Never have so many given so much for so long for so little for so few for so seldom.”

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Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be…

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Once you've opened yourself up, it's best to go all the way.

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Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all…

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Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

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Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.

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The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.

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I don't like dating or just living with a woman. I like to create a relationship, a marriage. And almost all of my marriages…

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“[Y]ou're young. Young takes care of everything.”

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I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.

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As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

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The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if…

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No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty…

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A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.

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I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

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American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?

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