Actors Quotes
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I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things. So, I guess that when I walk into a room, I bring all those things to a role, and I've always just simply seen myself as an actor.
Viola Davis -
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
Ethel Barrymore
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A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.
Michael Chiklis -
As a younger actor coming up, I wanted to be in films. There's something special about being on film sets; there's an excitement; the people in every department are passionate about what they do.
Adam Croasdell -
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.
Sean Penn -
Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.
Michael Caine -
Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.
Stanley Kubrick -
There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.
Sharon Horgan
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We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and struggle of colonial resistance, refusing as well by that means to link the resistance to other forms of colonial resistance, their rationale, and their tactics.
Judith Butler -
The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.
Mike Leigh -
I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.
Rider Strong -
One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.
Robin Williams -
A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.
Sean Durkin -
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.
Michael Pitt
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Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.
Wes Anderson -
All people are half actors.
Dana Andrews -
I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.
Viola Davis -
As much as Id love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.
Holliday Grainger -
I watch the energy between the actors. That's the most thrilling and interesting thing to me about watching a movie, what the actors are doing.
Barbara Crampton -
I deal with my actors as if they were my friends and people I love. They want to make me feel good and make me happy, and I want to make them happy. We are not in a professional relationship, we are in a passionate relationship.
Claude Lelouch
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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.
Lauren Bacall -
I'm a big believer in rehearsal and a big believer in the actors being able to find the material themselves and identify with the beats themselves without us having to stick to the actual language of the script, just for them to understand what each scene is about.
Dean Israelite -
Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God...
Rider Strong -
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.
Dustin Hoffman