Actors Quotes
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Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
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That's how I am as a director - if somebody does a really good take, I can't help it, I'm not even aware of it. Actors really, really need positive reinforcement.
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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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Method actors are like hams.
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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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I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.
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Between pets, comedy and toys, I try to surround myself with as much fun stuff as I can. That's how I pick projects. It's about whether I'm going to enjoy myself, enjoy the other actors, and enjoy the other people that I'm working with.
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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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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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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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Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.
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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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Denzel [Washington] just knows the actor. He knows the process, and you don't often get that.
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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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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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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 think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.
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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'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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Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.
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I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.
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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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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.
