Actors Quotes
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For aspiring actors out there, I would say stay focused and don't let anyone pull you away from your goals. Shoot for the stars so that if you ever fall short you can land on the clouds.
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I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct them one day.
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I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.
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Billy Campbell who is... I... truly one of the most talented actors today.
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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
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My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.
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Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
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I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.
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There's an inherent responsibility actors feel when portraying something that actually exists in the world. It's arguably something that not all actors would agree on because this is a craft, but for me, it's the emotion of what a character is going through that makes the performance what it is. We have a responsibility to bring those emotions to light.
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You're very in tune with, because actors are all different, and it's very tricky when you throw us all together because we all work differently. You want to get the best work out of every individual actor.
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There's a lot of actors that I admire because they can just switch one second into the character. Then, they go back to jokes, and then they're doing something really dramatic. I can't do that. I have to really focus.
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I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'
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I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.
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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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Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.
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What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.
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There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.
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I strongly support screening all visitors and potential immigrants thoroughly to prevent bad actors from entering the country.
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So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
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The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself.
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As actors, we want to challenges ourselves and put ourselves in different situations to see how we react and deliver a performance.
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There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.
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As an actor, you never want to feel like a tool. You never want to feel like, "Hey, just come here, say this, stop here, look this way," and that's it. You want to have a little input.
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You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
