Catherine Keener (Catherine Ann Keener) Quotes

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

Catherine Keener

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• Casting

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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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• My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

  

  Kevin Spacey
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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.

  

  Kevin Spacey
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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.

  

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

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Different
  • Actors
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• I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • True
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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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Kids
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• If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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  • Directors

• Trump is not somebody who`s fit to be president in any circumstances. I would feel deeply frustrated, not because anything he said about me, but because I would fear for the future of our country.

  

  Barack Obama
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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.

  

  Amy Poehler
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• The directors are supposed to be the stewards of their shareholders' investments, but too often act at the behest of the advisory and management companies that run the funds' day-to-day operations.

  

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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 don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

  

  Kristen Stewart
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• I have been incredibly fortunate to be able to work with good directors and for me it's not really a plan each time I'm on a set with one of them; I think about what I can learn from them because I'm very aware that my filmmaking skills are very modest.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
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• August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
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• I'm very grateful for work especially in film industry. It's highly competitive and there are a lot of people standing behind me jumping at the opportunity to only do one thing, like one movie or one TV show or one episode.

  

  Famke Janssen
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• Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights - that's suppression by any light.

  

  Artur Davis
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• He was essentially a quiet man, a man who never wrote letters…

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Man
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• In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

  

  Catherine Keener
  • Actors
  • Directors
  • Frustrated