Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
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Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.
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There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
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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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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.
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When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
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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.
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Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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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.
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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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I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.
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I never want movie theaters go away. It is the greatest time out on the town. You go out, it's a great place to go, great location, great hang, great date, good place to be with friends. But as an actor who works hard at making movies, I am glad that no matter what people can see your movie on. It's hard to keep a theater for long time; there are so many movies, so when you leave a theater, you're just glad there's a life for your movie.
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Some people are kind of themselves, and some people are straight-up actors that can meld into a lot of different parts.
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I think by default I wanted to be an actor because, on a movie set as a little kid, the only thing that you can do is be an actor. And I was really enthralled by the whole process.
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To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.
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There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.
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And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.
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I - you know, I'm not an actor.
