Actors Quotes
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I know many great actors who have small heads.
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I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor.
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I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.
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Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.
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In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.
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In a way, putting actors deep into this sort of complicated universe frees them from thinking about who they should be. They just are somebody.
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.
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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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I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.
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As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.
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I'm not one of those actors who's very good at having a list of roles that I want to play someday - which is bad, because I really need to do it. I have people in theaters ask me what I want to do and I don't have an answer!
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As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.
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Sometimes, when people use too much blue screen in movies, the actors don't look credible, because they have their own opinion of what the thing will look like, and each person has a different opinion.
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Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.
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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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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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For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.
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When a film is good, the spectators feel like they are the actors. What I love in film is not to watch the film but to live the film.
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I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.
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A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.
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It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.
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Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders...
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Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.
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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.
