Actors Quotes
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When a film is good, the spectators feel like they are the actors. What I love in film is not to watch the film but to live the film.
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I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.
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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 left L.A. and moved to Cleveland for four years in the early 2000s or whatever. I came back and thought that everything had changed. I was like, 'Oh my God, I don't think I ever fit in here. And wait, who are all of these celebrities that are not actors? Where did all of the actors go?
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I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.
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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.
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The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.
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Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.
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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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We all, as actors, have to fight these battles, where it's like, 'OK, that's a little far-fetched.'
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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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Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.
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All of the male actors joked about the ladies' faces when the hunky firemen walked in.
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I've always been a searcher - you know, a hunter. I'm certainly not the only one. They say actors shouldn't get political and everything, but you can't separate yourself. You can't disconnect yourself from anything.
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Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.
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I didn't know the odds were so stacked against me. I went for TV shows and never got them. But I kept glued to the pursuit. I was the biggest fool in town, but ultimately I was the biggest fool in town with a job.
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When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
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Actors have a magical difference from other people.
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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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I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.
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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 don't think any of us think of ourselves as artists or actors - clowns, we'll accept that label.
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My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.
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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.
