Actors Quotes
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I'm always surprised that certain actors have Twitter accounts. I guess they use it in a way that works for them. But I'd rather that people had less access to my personal life. If I could keep it that way, I'd be a happy lady.
Scarlett Johansson
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It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.
Mike Figgis
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People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.
Cate Blanchett
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As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.
Stephen Frears
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There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.
Tim Robbins
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I'm a very physical actor. I use everything - toes, teeth, ears, everything. I don't simply mean physical in the sense of movement and vigour. I find myself remembering the shape of a scene by how I'm standing, what I'm doing.
Peter O'Toole
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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.
Hiroyuki Sanada
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I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot.
Topher Grace
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How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances.
Paul Provenza
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Sometimes people think of actors as marionettes - everybody else makes the decisions for us - and, you know, really, making this decision [of which roles to take] is the only thing you lay claim to.
Julia Roberts
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Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was supposed to do. I didn't want to exploit it or be too "actory" about it, if that makes any sense. That's also why I didn't shave my head; I feel like you have to earn that. I applaud other actors who do that and I am not ripping on them, but to me, that's a badge of honor if you're fighting this disease.
Monica Potter
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Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.
Sean Young
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Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
Willem Dafoe
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A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.
Richard Widmark
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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.
Toby Stephens
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It's rare that you get to work with actors, female or not, where you all get along. Just because of the nature of humanity.
Shailene Woodley
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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.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe
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Well, of course, every actor's limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I've hit the wall a bit. I'm not ashamed at all, I think it's a process that you have to go through. That's how you learn.
Rutger Hauer
