Actors Quotes
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Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.
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I know actors with promising careers who get blown out of the business, never to return.
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I just wanted to try directing, and the best way was to write the material, so I was imbued with its origins when I was dealing with the actors.
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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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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.
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As soon as you put an actor to a person who is real, that person comes to life through another person.
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There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.
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There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
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I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.
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Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
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I came to feel as protective of Elijah as Sam does of Frodo .. In turn, Elijah helped me discover a lot about myself and I literally might not have survived the journey had this young prince of an actor not taken me under his wing.
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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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Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible.
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My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.
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I always tell actors, "Don't think of it as unemployment when you don't have a job. You have to think of it as being in preparation for your next job." You have to be always preparing for success.
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All actors have their own unique path when it comes to the development of their training and careers.
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As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.
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We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.
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The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.
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There are actors who make no decisions about how to play something until they're in the moment, looking into their scene partner's eyes. So they're completely available for whatever happens. And those are actors who tend to avoid getting into patterns.
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When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.
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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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I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.
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To see great actors bring it all to life us exhilerating.
