Stuart Townsend (Stuart Peter Townsend) Quotes
Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.
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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.
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Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.
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I love actors.
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My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.
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There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.
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Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.
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You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.
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I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.
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You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.
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As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.
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For old actors, just remember that inside you're only 14. Acting is for kids. You poor old grown-ups, you've forgotten how to do what kids know automatically.
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Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.
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Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.
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As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
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I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.
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It doesn't matter if you work with an Oscar winner or if you work with an unknown actor. There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director.
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- Be thou not technical with me,/Or else thine input valve may swift receive/a hearty helping of my golden foot.
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As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.
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Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.
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I am thought of as another Himmler. I'm not. The papers make me out as a criminal. I never killed anyone.
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The best part of my job is that we can be making shows like 'Boardwalk', 'Thrones', 'True Blood' but also female-centered comedies like 'Enlightened', 'Veep' and 'Girls'.
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I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.
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Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.
