Actors Quotes
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All actors are naughty. We're all troublemakers - horrible, attention-seeking children. 'Me, me, look at me!'
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I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.
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Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.
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I loved the Scarecrow and the Tin Man and the Lion and you could kind of see the actors' faces in them. It wasn't an entirely new face sculpted around them. What made those characters so human and appealing to me was seeing those great actors underneath there. They weren't lost behind a bunch of appliances.
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You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.
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You have a lot of stages as an actor.
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The only boring part of it is finding the fact that got you from point A to point B. Most actors, if they're being honest, are not going to say that that's the most stimulating acting work they've ever done. But the dynamics of staring into the face of evil and it looking back at you, and seeing yourself in that or not, is interesting.
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I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
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I love my little flat in Spitalfields. Lots of actors live out of a suitcase, so it's nice to have a base to come back to.
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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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Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.
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I don't consider myself an actor, for me it's employment. Like the actor who's a waiter a lot, I'm an actor when I'm not on tour, in that that's a job I can do.
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The thing with animation is that you record the actors like a radio show and then the animators become actors in their own way because it's their job to take this puppets and make them seem alive. They bring their own personalities to the way they move these puppets.
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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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I was an actor in Japan and I'm a regular on about three shows. I'm grateful for all of it. My personal activities like that help Big Bang as a whole as well.
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I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
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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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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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I made movies with some very nice people, experienced actors.
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Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to experiencing that's what we do, it's a different experience.
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I do hear about these actors who go on vacations to Bali for three months, and their agents are banging their heads against a wall trying to find their clients - but that's not me. I'm working hard every day. Enjoy your vacation.
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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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Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.
