Actors Quotes
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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
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I've always wanted to do a family movie.
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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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To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.
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It doesn't matter if you work with an Oscar winner or if you work with an unknown actor. There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director.
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You know, actors are fans, too. And talent is very attractive to me.
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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'm very social. It's just most of my friends are not actors.
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I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.
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Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.
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It's so rare, actors who are not vain.
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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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Ah, nuts. I'm an actor. I just do what comes naturally.
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The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
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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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You become the movie you are making.
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As an actor, I know immediately if I'm saying a word that doesn't feel right coming out of my mouth, and I know how to change it. But as a director watching something, or even as a writer reading a script, sometimes it's not always clear what needs to be fixed.
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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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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.
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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 did a movie in Esperanto.
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In fact, my methodology is based on the idea of waiting for when inspiration arrives for the actors. And that means that the light, the cinematography, everything has to be ready for that moment, so they don't have to wait.
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[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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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.
