Actors Quotes
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As an actor, I'll play anything.
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I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.
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Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.
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I'm a professional at what I do. I'm an actor. I've been on enough movie sets to know the difference between a stage light and an apple box. I know the difference. Why? Because I've been around it long enough and I know.
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I was born a character actor.
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I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.
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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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Very rarely do actors, even with features, get to live with a part for that long and really dig into it.
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I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.
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Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.
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Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist?
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Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.
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A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.
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I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.
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I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.
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I'm one of those actors who's just standing there, waiting and ready for something to come my way. I don't really try to think about, "Oh, I feel the next thing I should do should be a feature. Now, I think I should do a play." I just hope someone wants to cast me in something.
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There are many actors who, whatever they do, they pretty much play themselves.
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To actors on opening night: You have had good equipment to work with. You've had a theater with everything you needed, and you are involved with the play; but all the way through you have been handicapped. One essential has been denied you. Tonight the audience is there; now they are sitting out front; you have everything you need.
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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.
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The problem with television isn't the number of horizontal scanning lines. It's the lines of dialogue spoken by the actors.
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I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor.
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You know, it's a wonderful thing. I have to say that some of the greatest actors I've ever worked with have been doing anime for years. It's not just because of the popularity, either.
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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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Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not real. What are you doing? Oh, you're really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I'll see you in an hour.'
