Amanda Seyfried says she turned down Guardians of the Galaxy because she thought a talking tree and raccoon in space would ruin her career "I think turning down Guardians of the Galaxy was just I mean, it’s it was so obvious to me at the time. I’m like, this is not going to be a hit. Like they’re talking, the tree and the raccoon are talking to each other. They’re in space. And also they’re all in space. Yeah. And I was just like I I this will ruin my career if this is bad. And there’s a high chance that this could be bad" "I mean, obviously I was wrong. But I still don’t take back that decision. I made it for myself. I made it for my my family that I knew I wanted to have. And I and I just don’t want to spend all the time in the makeup trailer" "I just I I I I don’t I can’t sit still anyway. Um and I really don’t like stunts and I don’t like heights and I don’t like pretending the entire world. I need something to hold on to" "Not saying it’s not. It’s just not for me"

Ed Harris says a lot of what he brings to soldiers on screen comes from veterans he knew, including a Vietnam vet he lived with who had lost an arm and a leg "I got to know a lot of guys from a VFW post in Naugatuck, Connecticut" "he had lost his right arm and his left leg, he had a hook on his right arm" "and he was suffering, man." "It's just, you know, it's in there. So it comes out." That's the difference between researching a part and having lived right next to it. He wasn't interviewing this man for a role, he was working a gas station with him. Next time Ed Harris plays a guy who's carrying something heavy, now you know where it comes from. ft: @Collider Collider on youtube

Lucasfilm should take her up on this. She already proved on Ted Lasso that she can play someone cold on the surface and warm underneath, and Star Wars villains work best when you can tell they used to believe in something. Give her an Imperial officer with an actual backstory and she'd steal every scene she's in.

A one-man show is about the hardest thing a comic can sign up for. There's no co-star to lean on and no editor to fix a slow night. That has always been his strength, though. The best bits from his years hosting the Oscars felt half made up on the spot, so I'd love to see how much of that looseness makes it into a scripted play.

Peter Dinklage says Leonardo DiCaprio walked right past him in New York and nobody noticed "I was being harassed a little bit, you know, people mean well" "Leonardo DiCaprio walked right by me in a baseball cap and sunglasses." "God, they don't even know because they're not looking for Leo. They just see me" "the other 20% you just want to give them a lecture." Same hat, same sunglasses, same street. DiCaprio gets to disappear because nobody expects him there. Dinklage can't, because his is the face people are already looking for. From Flagrant with Andrew Schulz

Sally Field says Robin Williams shut down filming on Mrs. Doubtfire for the day when he found out her father had just died "I got a call from the doctor that my father had had another massive stroke." "But please lean down and tell him that Sally says goodbye." "I was doing the scene about the kids being taken away from the father. It was what happened to my father." "And Robin turned around and said, that's it for the day, guys. We're just wrapped here. We're done for the day." She went straight from that phone call to a scene about a family getting split up, and she was a child of divorce herself. Nobody on that set knew. Robin just noticed something was off and asked her. Then he did the one thing the guy at the top of the call sheet can always do. He ended the day and walked her out himself. More than thirty years later she still tells it like it happened last week. ft: @people People on youtube

Billy Bob Thornton says Billy Wilder told him he was too ugly to be a leading man and too pretty to be a character actor, so he should write his own stories "He goes, so you want to be an actor, huh?" "He said, you're too ugly to be a leading man." "And he said, you're too pretty to be a character actor." "He goes, write your own stories, create your own characters, don't stand in line with everybody else." Wilder didn't even remember saying it. Thornton took it literally anyway, and years later he wrote Sling Blade, played Karl himself and won the Oscar for the screenplay. Pretty good return on one tray of hors d'oeuvres. ft: @CBSSunday CBS Sunday Morning on youtube

Sam Elliott says a big agent flipped through his photos and told him to go back to Portland or get rid of the way he talks "He's sitting there and he's looking through my book, and looking through it." "If I were you, I'd go back to Portland." "And if you're not gonna do that, I'd get a voice and diction teacher" "And I didn't take his advice on either count" The voice that agent wanted gone is the same one that played the Stranger in The Big Lebowski and has done Smokey Bear for years. He never fixed it. He just kept showing up with it until the whole business came around. Best career advice in this clip is the advice he ignored. ft: @DEADLINE Deadline on youtube