Actors Quotes
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Some journalists are pestier than others, so I find out where the pests are. I am careful with my actors and actresses. I come back and tell them, 'Watch out for this one or that one.' People are surprised I do that. But I watch out for them even after the movie is over.
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Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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It [smoking] was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in each other's face.
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
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Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.
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Our job as actors, especially in front of a camera, is almost like textile artists. We spend so much time getting the right texture of yarn, and working out the color scheme, and binding off the weave, and making it just right.
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If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.
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Denzel [Washington] just knows the actor. He knows the process, and you don't often get that.
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You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.
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Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.
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I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.
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I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.
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You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that you can find. If you don't start with that then it sort of defies the whole purpose of trying to make the best film that you can make.
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You know I hate watching myself on TV, I know a lot of actors say that, but it's true for me.
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For old actors, just remember that inside you're only 14. Acting is for kids. You poor old grown-ups, you've forgotten how to do what kids know automatically.
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I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.
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Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.
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There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.'
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As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
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I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.
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I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.
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I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.
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I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.
