Actors Quotes
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There's a misconception that actors with no background don't get any exposure from big production houses. I think people should start rethinking about it.
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Watching live actors onstage, in something that changes night by night, real people picking up cues from each other, it concentrates you on the process rather than the result.
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To be an actor you have to be a child.
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In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful.
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The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.
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I've spent most of my life trying to make actors comfortable, which I think is 90 percent of getting a good performance.
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You can meet lots of actors who are in their own world and do their own thing, and they have no idea what's going on and they don't know anyone's name around them.
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I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.
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I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light.
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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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I think actors like to be directed. Actors like to know where they're headed and what they want, so I'm very encouraging.
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We have so many male superstars, but there are just a few female actors who have attained that status. It is not only because of the industry; it's in the society.
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I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.
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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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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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I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.
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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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More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.
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I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor.
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There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.
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I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.
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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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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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It made me proud to know I'd join a long gallery of actors covered in blood in movies.
