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Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

— Patrice Leconte

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

— Bruno Dumont

Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.

— Jason Bateman

I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the orchestra, and when you're an actor, you're playing the violin. There's a thrill to each of them, but as the conductor, you get the fuller sound.

— Josh Radnor

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

— Sam Palladio

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

— Leila Josefowicz

Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.

— Hailee Steinfeld

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

— Miranda Otto

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.

— Tim Curry

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

— Marilyn Monroe

✗Opposing Perspectives

You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.

— John C. Reilly