Actor Quote by Nicholas Meyer

“An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.”

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Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.

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No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

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Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t think the show demonstrates that. I think it is about gunboat diplomacy. In the final analysis, the Enterprise fires. They’re always shooting and bringing civilization, and coming to worlds where they don’t approve of tyrannical enterprises – no pun intended…

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I never gave my career much strategic thought. Maybe I should have.

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Movie studios, Hollywood studios, by and large are not making the kind of movies that I go to see.

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The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

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I'm mainly interested in people trying to figure s#!t out.

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