Actors Quotes
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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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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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I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.
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There's the art house movies and the action movies and the chick films. I think the same thing's happening with actors.
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Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.
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About actors' lives... I'm not the person to ask. I don't live an actor's life and I really don't know. I probably read less about actors' lives than you all do. So, I'm in the dark about all of that, sorry.
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An actor gives voice to the many multitudes that we all contain. That's why we love the movies, why we love TV shows: we watch different people portray an aspect of ourselves, maybe even one we don't like.
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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 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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Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
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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 think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.
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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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I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.
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There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.
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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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I was born to stand out. I don't care whether or not people will find me attractive on screen. That's not why I became an actor. I know that more and more with each new role.
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I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
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That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.
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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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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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You know, actors are fans, too. And talent is very attractive to me.
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I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.
