Actor Quotes
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He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
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I'm not a director that's about precision and control and perfection, I'm about creating an atmosphere that's organic and interesting and then letting people loose, and for that there's no greater actor or performer than children. Animals are maybe a close runner-up.
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When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas.
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I'd rather not marry an actor because there isn't room in the house for two egos.
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I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.
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As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.
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The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
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So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's one of the first things you should do, even though most don't, is to ask good actors who they think is right for the part. They know better than anybody. But without missing a beat Maggie said Pauline Collins. I didn't know Pauline because I hadn't seen Shirley Valentine, but then I saw this thing that she did with Woody Allen "You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger", in which she was wonderful as a psychic, and I said to her on the phone: "The dialogue seemed improvised."
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I remember hearing a good story about Jack Nicholson working with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining 1980. Nicholson was saying that, as an actor, you always want to try to make things real. And believable. When he was working with Kubrick, he finished a take and said, "I feel like that was real." And Kubrick said, "Yes, it's real, but it's not interesting".
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My music doesn't exist in a vacuum; there's a script and there's an actor and it's about to come together.
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I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.
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I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.
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Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
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I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.
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I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
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...as an actor there`s nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It`s so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.
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Physical comedy and musical theatre were never actually in my main focus at school. I was more of a dramatic actor. I always thought I was better at that.
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I'm growing as an actor and performer every week.
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Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.
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You can't plan your character arc - you have a vague idea, maybe, but I'm constantly surprised. Sometimes actors in films will play the ending of the movie, or even the middle, and you know where it's going - as an audience member you can read the actor.
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I never saw myself as a character actor or a lead actor; I've only seen myself as just an actor.
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On being an actor ....nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.
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I want to be a man's man - not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.
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Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.
