Actors Quotes
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I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.
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Actors are such an insecure breed.
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Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If you're not there your art's not there. That's why we actors are often such self-centered objects.
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Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.
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The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.
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If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.
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It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
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You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe.
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Hitchcock said he viewed actors as cattle.. but some were free range.
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One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.
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Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends.
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What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.
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Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.
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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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Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
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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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I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland'.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.
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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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All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.
