Actors Quotes
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With any actor, rather than tips, I think when you enjoy working with somebody and you enjoy what they do, I think your reaction is partly to be doing what they're doing, so you're learning all the time, whether it be sub-consciously or whether it be just through the person you enjoy working with.
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There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.
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They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.
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You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.
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When you get great actors like that turning up and not being paid, then they all come for the right reason. They all come to play and they all come to enjoy the characters.
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Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.
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When actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.
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[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
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As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.
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Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.
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The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.
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My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.
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You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.
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As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.
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Shaquille O'Neal walked in and said we were hiring him, so we said, "Yes sir!" Shaq is a genuinely funny guy. He's really funny in the movie. He's not just a stunt cast- he's a genuinely funny 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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To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.
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One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.
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Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.
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I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.
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How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well, I always thought, often enough that its a wonder the whole waking world isn't simply viewed as an endless improvised film. One with as many screenwriters, producers, and directors as there are actors.
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Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.
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As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do.
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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.
