Robin Williams Quotes

I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops.

Robin Williams

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• I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

  

  Uta Hagen
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• The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

  

  Abel Ferrara
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  • Love
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• I've always thought I was talented.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Always
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• I love actors.

  

  Cameron Crowe
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• I've heard that kind of weird backward compliment often - 'She's so talented, but not pretty.'

  

  Kathy Baker
  • Pretty
  • Weird
  • Talented

• 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
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• As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Want

• 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

• 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.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Waiting
  • Story
  • Actors

• As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Help
  • Giving
  • Respect

• 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
  • Movie
  • Acting

• I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Some people are kind of themselves, and some people are straight-up actors that can meld into a lot of different parts.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I personally felt in my heart that we hadn't played anybody [prior to Saturday]. We finally get a chance to play someone as talented as we are, and y'all see what happens.

  

  Darnell Dockett
  • Heart
  • Chance
  • Saturday

• I sort of dreamed about directing before my career as an actor took off. I've directed stage before in so many capacities on tours. I put that together. You have to. Otherwise, it's your statement. It's your voice, and that has to come through.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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  • Career
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• Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Passion
  • Acting

• I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Trying
  • Actors
  • Method

• I have a passion for words. I love words. And I'm just learning and developing my skills for words. I do books and I do journalism and plays. I have a broad palette. I don't have a great eye for direction. I love working with actors and I work very well with them because I appreciate what they bring to the table. I'd never say never, of course, but I look at it and don't really fancy it. I want to try and master the word side of it first.

  

  Geoff Thompson
  • Words
  • Actors
  • Direction

• I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Actors
  • Grew
  • Screens

• There's the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn't been a theoretical exercise. It's been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we've learned an awful lot from.

  

  Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
  • Innovation
  • Learned
  • Approach

• I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Actors
  • Talented
  • Matt Damon