Actors Quotes
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Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.
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I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.
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I knew that we had an obligation and that was to keep an energy in it and try to keep the audience interested. In fact, I asked some of the actors to take a look at His Girl Friday, a Howard Hawks film with Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant, because they talk over each other and there's a great energy.
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I don't really even know what Twitter is. I know that might sound wierd to some people. I don't use social media. I make music, so I use social media... it's more helpful for me when I'm making music than as an actor.
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Honestly, I look at the project and I look at the people attached and I look at the director. If it's a role that I feel will help me, as an actor, then I'll definitely take it.
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Different actors have different rhythms. My goal as a director is to let these guys get their best work out.
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There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.
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Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.
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It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.
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I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
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I don't have to meet actors. I'm really blessed that I don't have to do all that horseshit.
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I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.
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I'm a complete control freak. We worked a lot on the pace and where to put the silences. We choreographed the gestures and movements. We had a lot of rehearsals and a lot of takes. Also, there's something special that comes out of those two actors: he's water and she's fire.
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When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors.
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In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.
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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.
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When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.
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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.
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It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.
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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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If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.
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When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.
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I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.
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My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.
