Actors Quotes
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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.
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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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I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.
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Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.
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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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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.
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Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.
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Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.
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I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
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The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
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As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.
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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
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As an actor, it's better to just be more loose and give yourself over. That's always fun. It's fun to just let go and be somebody else.
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I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
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I think it's very hard to direct foreign language actors, but Carl Rinsch found a great way. A special super visional way.
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We all, as actors, have to fight these battles, where it's like, 'OK, that's a little far-fetched.'
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I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery in a much shorter time frame than actors. But I do think the networks have to protect themselves. s
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Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.
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I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.
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It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.
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I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.
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The people I look up to the most - politicians, actors, artists - are the people who manage to do a high-powered job while staying themselves. They aren't afraid to be nice.
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I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.
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God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.
