Actors Quotes
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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.
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Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies... every single one of us.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.
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I want to be an actor, I am just not very comfortable talking about myself.
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I also want the chance to work with some of the best actors in the business, because that's where you can learn so much by just being on a set and getting a feel for how they approach their role and how they work with you
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When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to know the actors first, and you have three writers, as opposed to a room full of writers.
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Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?
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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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Work was never about wanting fame or money. I never thought about that. I loved getting the job, going to rehearsal, playing someone else, hanging around with a bunch of actors. I needed that, the way you need water.
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As an actor, doing animation is definitely on the list of most actors because it is such a freeing, fun, different experience than being on camera. There's just something different about it that's not more fun, but a different sort of fun.
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I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.
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I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
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I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool.
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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.
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As an actor, I'll play anything.
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That's one of the things of being an actor. You have to push any knowledge of any future, at all, out of your mind. You never know what's going to happen where.
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I was trained as a dramatic actor. Im really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.
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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 always say YCDA: you can do anything. If you want to be a successful actor, you have to believe in yourself more than anything else, and dont let anybody tell you that you cannot do it because you can.
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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 have a lot of friends that are actors, and I'm blessed to even have a job.
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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.
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Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who liked my play. I was rudely awakened from that fantasy when he directed it as if he loathed it. . . . Work with good actors. A good actor hears the way you (and no one else) write. A good actor makes rewrites easy. A good actor tells you things about your play you didn't know.
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I think actors are meant to have crises of faith; I think it's part of the job. I think it makes you a stronger person and a stronger actor.
