Actors Quotes
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As an actor, you have to have your history.
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Usually I approach to acting completely blindfolded. I read the script, I connect to the character, and then I try not to think about it too much until I'm there and I'm in wardrobe and I'm with the other actors and we're going through the scene once.
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As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.
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I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.
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A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point to really engage the actors and really make it feel like a safe place for them to explore whatever it is they want to explore in whatever scene with their character.
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A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.
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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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Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.
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I loved being on the other side of the camera and interacting with the crew. When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.
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I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.
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Hitchcock said he viewed actors as cattle.. but some were free range.
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I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.
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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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I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
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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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I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character.
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There are a lot of actors that are more talented than me at Second City who quit it before they even got to a paying status. Weird luck. I had no other option.
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Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
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It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.
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You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.
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If my kids decide to be actors and really, truly love it and are passionate about it, then I would definitely want to help them along their way, but it's a tough business.
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I resisted being an actor for some time.
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Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
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I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.
