Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

I - you know, I'm not an actor.

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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.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Process

• 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.

  

  Barbara Eden
  • Time
  • Actors
  • Working

• I love actors.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Actors
  • I Love

• I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Think
  • Space

• Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • People
  • Career
  • Opinion

• Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Feels
  • Actors
  • Creative

• There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Interesting
  • Actors
  • Individual

• 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.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Theatre

• Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.

  

  Mallory Factor
  • Bad
  • Focus
  • Actors

• I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.

  

  LL Cool J
  • School
  • College
  • Mean

• When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • People
  • Up
  • Actors

• Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Actors
  • Healthy
  • Repeats

• Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Famous
  • Actors
  • Necessary

• When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Risk

• Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Present
  • Actors
  • Natural

• As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Different
  • Actors
  • Directors

• 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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Acting

• I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.

  

  Michael Imperioli
  • Actors
  • Dumb
  • Recognize

• Every day, passion speaks to us through our feelings. That's why when you allow yourself to become anesthetized by what others think, you literally block yourself from living the life you were called to live. I promise you that if you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart. The people who truly love you want you to love yourself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It's a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef.

  

  Rene Redzepi
  • People
  • Job
  • Kitchen

• If you can no longer think about the future, and you once dreamed of everlasting love, don't give up the dream, find it again.

  

  Lanford Wilson
  • Love
  • Future
  • Dream

• I - you know, I'm not an actor.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Actors