Actors Quotes
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In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part
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I lack confidence as an actor.
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Dog movies nowadays are not what dog movies were 50 or even 10 years ago. For one thing, the dogs have become better actors.
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I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.
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A lot of people when they make movies, the actors act like it's their journey and that everyone is on the set to facilitate their journey and the whole thing is set up that way - they ask if you want anything.
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When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.
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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.
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It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.
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You're basically on set to help the production. You're helping the actors make it make sense, or maybe you wrote something that doesn't work in the production sense. Most of it is coming up with jokes.
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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.
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I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work with an actor. That stuff about actors who stay in character all the time is nonsense.
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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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If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.
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When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.
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The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.
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It's difficult dating, as an actor because your free time is precious. The guy I end up with someday is going to have to love traveling.
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I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
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Don't watch people's individual performances. Watch the energy that's being passed between them, and then you'll see if the scene is really working or if the actors are really doing their job. If they're playing with the energy that's between them, they're not just acting in their own little bubble.
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If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character
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There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?
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By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.
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I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.
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But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.
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Musicians ultimately are who they are, they aren't actors, so as a clipmaker you have a responsibility to protect them.
