Actors Quotes
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As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is a thief, you have to figure out what makes them a thief. Whatever the prevailing idiosyncrasy is, I have to find it in the script.
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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.
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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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I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.
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I can pretty much tell the whole story through my eyes. Some of the best actors that you watch don't have to physically do too much.
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An actors most important responsibility is to know lines well.
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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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You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.
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It's very rare that you get a part that you actually like. People have a misconception, whether it be because actors lie or because you're reading interviews from giantly, massively famous actors, but you don't just get offered parts, all the time. You actually have to work to get them.
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If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... Id never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.
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As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.
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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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I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.
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I always want to execute and maximize off of potential, and this is a natural progression. Coming up as a youngster, I always wanted to be a rapper, but I knew that if I did everything right as a rapper, I'd end up as an actor, following the models of Ice Cube, Tupac [Shakur] and Will Smith.
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I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.
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Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.
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What I really mean is that actors do the interview process because they have to. It's a good bargain: If I can do this part then I'll sell it. I just wish it wasn't me who had to do it because it feels very unnatural.
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I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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With every project, you feel like you're trying to find your place to vent. For any actor, that's typically the feeling that drives you to do it.
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[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
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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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All great men are play actors of their own ideal.
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Someone asked me if I was a method actor - I loved that! I needed to know what it felt like to lose everything just to do the Bad Day video! I could really feel the angst!
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I'm very social. It's just most of my friends are not actors.
