Actors Quotes
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I've always felt it's the directors purview to say what; it's the actor's purview to say how. It's not good for an actor to have the big picture in mind - it bollocks you up. An actor's purview is the tiny little... We measure our performance in seconds.
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No one is banging my door down to be a superhero. I don't know how good I would be. I have low bone density, so I don't know if anyone really wants to put me in a cape and chuck me out a window. But a lot of my friends, who are great actors and who come from film, are doing TV because that's where the opportunities are. For us, it does feel like it's similar to making the movies that we used to make.
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... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.
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I think actors make the mistake of finding their little niche in the business and once they try to do something a little darker, boom, they get slapped across the face for it, so they go back to what they did before.
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Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear. And I beg them not to imitate me, because I'm not a good actor.
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I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.
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Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.
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It wasn't as though I really made a commitment to it; there wasn't anything else around. So I wasn't driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be the thing that I managed to do best.
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I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.
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You have a lot of stages as an actor.
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The actor side of me loves to get dressed up and I feel like Cinderella when I'm in diamonds.
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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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You become the movie you are making.
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I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.
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The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
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If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.
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The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.
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You know, actors are fans, too. And talent is very attractive to me.
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I'm very social. It's just most of my friends are not actors.
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I sort of dreamed about directing before my career as an actor took off. I've directed stage before in so many capacities on tours. I put that together. You have to. Otherwise, it's your statement. It's your voice, and that has to come through.
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I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.
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C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.
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Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.
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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.
