Actors Quotes
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People sometimes forget how important Broadway is as a place for young actors to grow.
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Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If you photograph well, that's enough. I have a terrible time distinguishing one from another. Girls wear their hair the same, and are much too anorexic-looking.
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Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
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When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit."
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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.
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Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.
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Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.
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Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.
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Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.
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I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct them one day.
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I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.
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I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.
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As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.
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But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.
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I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy.
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I feel like a lot of the young actors that are just coming up are really good. I think directors are directing better.
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I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.
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Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor.
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As an actor, early on, you learn that the audience is never wrong. And if you think they are wrong, you need to find a different way to make a living. Collectively the audience is smarter than you will ever, ever be.
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I don't think most people understand acting, even the people who call themselves savvy, even actors.
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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'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.
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Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.
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I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.
