Actors Quotes
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There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.
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Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.
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As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.
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Sometimes actors come in, you record them, and they do their role.
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After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
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A totally healthy actor is a paradox.
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Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.
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When I was a kid, you went and saw movies. You knew very little about the actor's personal life except what would be, like, in Photoplay or something. We didn't hear "The Making of..." every single movie, and actors didn't have to put this tremendous piece of work that they'd done into a sound bite.
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All great men are play actors of their own ideal.
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You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.
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All actors are naughty. We're all troublemakers - horrible, attention-seeking children. 'Me, me, look at me!'
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Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met
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I don't think that anyone learns anything. Well, I mean, you do always learn something if you have your eyes and ears open. You do learn something from every outing, every time that you go for it. But for me what actors do is interact and that's why you have to do that.
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Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.
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I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
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Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.
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Parts win prizes, not actors.
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L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.
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Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.
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The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.
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William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time
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I made movies with some very nice people, experienced actors.
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Ah, nuts. I'm an actor. I just do what comes naturally.
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When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.
