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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer. Not as somebody with a particular idea to sell, or something like that.
Alan Alda
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Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.


Gloria Steinem
I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.
Gene Luen Yang
There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.
Sharon Horgan
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I think what Bob Shiller and I are doing is we're focusing on macroeconomics and the role of psychology in macroeconomics.
George Akerlof
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Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.


Sean Connery
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I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.
Zachary Quinto
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I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.


Adam Clymer
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It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.
Terry Pratchett
Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.
Brit Marling
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I need to do psychology classes. That would be so interesting to me, studying people.


Britney Spears
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If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.


Evangeline Lilly
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I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.
Natascha McElhone
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Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
Val Kilmer
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From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.


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I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over.


Jeremy Lin
I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.
Tony Goldwyn
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Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.


Quentin Tarantino
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.
Denis Leary
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