Actors Quotes
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The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
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... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.
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I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.
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I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot.
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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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The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.
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TV is a wasteland. It's a bunch of news actors that read off a prompter.
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You have a lot of stages as an actor.
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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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I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.
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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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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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I traveled and worked with amazing actors, like Andy Garcia, Alec Baldwin, Brendan Fraser, Forest Whitaker, Lee Pace. It was this great learning experience. And then, I started watching a lot of television. I was always in these foreign countries and I would get TV shows on DVD, and I started to realize that all of the amazing roles for women were on television. I was spoiled by Buffy because I thought that was the way it was everywhere, and it's not.
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Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.
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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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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'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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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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[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
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You become the movie you are making.
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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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You know, actors are fans, too. And talent is very attractive to me.
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The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.
