Actors Quotes
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My ambition has always been to work with English and American actors and directors. Those were the movies that I was watching when I was growing up.
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My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.
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God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.
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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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I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
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A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.
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Actors were the first people to accept me.
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I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.
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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.
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I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.
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Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have to step away from yourself, if you're going to do it. Otherwise don't do it; otherwise why do it?
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I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.
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A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.
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When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
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As an actor, you want to push yourself.
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David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.
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I've spent most of my life trying to make actors comfortable, which I think is 90 percent of getting a good performance.
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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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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.
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There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.
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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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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.
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It was pretty surreal to be auditioning as a kid, and I'd get close to these actors that I really respected. I remember River Phoenix in particular. I met him at an audition hall or something.
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Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.
