Actors Quotes
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Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.
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... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.
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Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress. I knew the actors and the paparazzi. It was just kind of always in my landscape. It was never directed at me, but it was always somewhere so I could see how it operated and I could see it from afar and go 'Wow, that's not really glamorous, it's kind of exhausting not having any privacy.' So it was never something I pursued. The first time I saw the billboard for Pretty Little Liars I almost got into a car accident!
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Sir Derek Jacobi has been an inspiration to so many actors and audiences throughout his brilliant career. To see him in Shakespeare is an event in itself.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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TV is a wasteland. It's a bunch of news actors that read off a prompter.
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I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.
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I didn't intend to become an actor.
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What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.
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Inspiration can come from anywhere. But I do love actors. I wish I could drop a bunch of names, but there are just too many.
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Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
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A totally healthy actor is a paradox.
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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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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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Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.
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Im always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in El Gringo; it shows in the new Universal Soldier. You cant rest on your laurels; youve got to keep improving.
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As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.
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Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.
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I've always wanted to do a family movie.
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I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.
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I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.
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There is this thing called Actors Access, which is run by the breakdown services. What they do is they put up casting notices that are available to everyone. Because there's thousands and thousands of actors and there are student films and grad student films and, sometimes, some small independent projects that are on there.
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The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
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I'm not just an actor born in L.A. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.
