Actors Quotes
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I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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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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When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.
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I would always slip away to the cinema. I always found something absolutely extraordinary about the fact that these actors were always kind of kicking hard at some new dimension they were doing on film.
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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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I have great admiration for athletes. They are just like actors in a lot of ways. They have tremendous pressures and conflicts. They have to compete, and they can't stay home just because they have a head cold.
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If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.
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Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.
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It's easier to be more vulnerable in a smaller environment. It's hard to expect your actors to be able to open up in that way and stay with the level of focus needed when there's so many people on stage.
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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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Sometimes it feels weird being an actor surrounded by all these real fighters and you gotta keep your confidence high and do your best to learn it as quickly as possible.
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I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.
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I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.
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I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'
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I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.
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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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All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.
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You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.
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I know actors with promising careers who get blown out of the business, never to return.
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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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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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Anyone can do theater, even actors. And theater can be done everywhere. Even in a theater.
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Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.
