Actors Quotes
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The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
Morgan Freeman
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Honestly, as an actor, all I need to know, the way I kind of look at a scene, is like a puzzle. There are certain puzzle pieces that are bigger than others, and all I need to know is if this is going to fit here to make this part of the puzzle work.
Sarah Shahi
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I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
Michael Caine
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Maybe I'm a better actor when I know there's going to be an older woman involved.
Hunter Parrish
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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.
Ben Cross
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As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.
Sanjay Dutt
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The biggest fear you face, as an actor, is whether people are going to like you. When you learn to let go of that fear, you can go so much deeper into the role and really take much bigger risks 'cause you're not worried about trivial things like that.
Seth Gabel
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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.
Sandra Oh
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If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.
Michael Caine
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The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.
Ivor Novello
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Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.
Carroll O'Connor
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Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and that was it. With film, you capture that, it's shown all over the world and it's there forever.
Michael Jackson
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Anyone can do theater, even actors. And theater can be done everywhere. Even in a theater.
Augusto Boal
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I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.
Judy Holliday
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One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer.
Josh Charles
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I don't know of an actor that the Coen brothers would come to and say, "Hey, I've got a movie for you to be in, if you want to do it," that would say, "No." That's the truth.
George Clooney
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Actors have a magical difference from other people.
Agnes Moorehead
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When you look at something that's so extraordinary, like a man who is traveling back in time to prevent JFK's assassination, for me as an actor, you're still trying to seed it in some sort of reality.
Sarah Gadon
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Whenever actors tout off about doing their own stunts, it's always ... they're so protective of you that I always know these stunt guys are so good and they're never going to put you in danger. But it's fun to do something kind of exciting, even something as simple as driving 70 through a tunnel with five motorcycles ... it sounds simple, but it's actually really nerve-wracking.
Ethan Hawke
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Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have to perform yet and who, from the audience, in street clothes, watches the other actors for a moment, making herself inconspicuous, not wanting anyone to pay attention to her.
Marcel Proust
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I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.
Paul Newman
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All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.
William H. Macy
