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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• As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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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
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• I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

  

  Gary Sinise
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• I follow Elle Fanning's career. I really like to follow actors who are a similar age to me. Just to see what they're up to.

  

  Maisie Williams
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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.

  

  Rani Mukerji
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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.

  

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

  

  Kevin Kline
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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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  • Job
  • Help

• Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Character
  • Hope
  • Actors

• 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
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• Parts win prizes, not actors.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Actors
  • Prize
  • Parts

• 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
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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
  • Directors

• 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
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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.

  

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• 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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• Every character actor, in their own little sphere, is the lead.

  

  Dabbs Greer
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• The biggest fear you face, as an actor, is whether people are going to like you. When you learn to let go of that fear, you can go so much deeper into the role and really take much bigger risks 'cause you're not worried about trivial things like that.

  

  Seth Gabel
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• It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.

  

  Wentworth Miller
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  • Expectations
  • Politician

• Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Want
  • Place
  • Miss

• 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