Actors Quotes
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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 think theatre reminds us what we're doing as actors, because every night and every matinee day, you have an audience telling you what's working and what's not. And that's very good for us as actors to hone our skills.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.
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You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
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A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.
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Some journalists are pestier than others, so I find out where the pests are. I am careful with my actors and actresses. I come back and tell them, 'Watch out for this one or that one.' People are surprised I do that. But I watch out for them even after the movie is over.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.
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Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
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You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.
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Method actors are like hams.
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Every movie is unknown.
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You want the actors to disappear into roles and stay under the radar, and that gets harder when someone is known for their actual personality, or who they seem to be.
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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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For most actors, it's such a struggle to get work. Once they have it, they feel that there's an enormous amount of pressure on them to make it work, and have everyone love them.
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You know I hate watching myself on TV, I know a lot of actors say that, but it's true for me.
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Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.
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Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.
