Ben Cross Quotes
I have great admiration for athletes. They are just like actors in a lot of ways. They have tremendous pressures and conflicts. They have to compete, and they can't stay home just because they have a head cold.
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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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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Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
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Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
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I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.
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There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
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My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.
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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.
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Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible.
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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
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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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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.
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I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.
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I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
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We are more than what we do... much more than what we accomplish... far more than what we possess.
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I have great admiration for athletes. They are just like actors in a lot of ways. They have tremendous pressures and conflicts. They have to compete, and they can't stay home just because they have a head cold.
