Actors Quotes
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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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I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.
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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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The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
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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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The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.
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I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
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You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested.
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If you're lucky enough to work with great actors and creative people, they're always just going to be who they are, so I don't think there's a difference between the Brits and the Americans.
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When I used to do tours, I'd be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the reaction was because I was coming back unemployed. Actors are constantly being put to the test.
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I'm not the writer who says, "You have to say it exactly as I wrote it," because you don't get good work. You want somebody who's going to bring something interesting to it and really create a character with you. You see that with certain actors.
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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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All actors have their own unique path when it comes to the development of their training and careers.
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I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.
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I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.
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The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar territory - places I had lived, people I knew, my life as an actor in New York - and many were prompted by or grounded in personal experience.
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My feeling is that in the purest form, an actor is a service to the people. It's democratic in its purest form. That's what an actor is. If he or she isn't that, then there is no purpose in doing it. They're like priests.
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Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.
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To see great actors bring it all to life us exhilerating.
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I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.
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Tom Cruise is one of the most successful actors of all time.
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Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom.
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Giving yourself over to the fine line of a human-like droid means that sometimes you make choices that don't make you feel good, as an actor, and you have to learn to embrace that. No actor will tell you that that's a good place to be.
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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.
