Actors Quotes
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You couldn't hope to make a drama and have people rewriting on the day and having the actors making suggestions, "Wouldn't it be funny if my character did this?" "No. You're the actor. I'll tell you what to do."
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I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.
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I don't think film actors need training, really, but I needed any help I could get.
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I know many great actors who have small heads.
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But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.
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There are quite a few actors in the business who are much more difficult than kids or monkeys.
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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're actors at the end of the day. I don't take it home with me. My experience outside of work, I love... when I hear wrap, it's the most exciting part of my day. I'm the first to have my make-up off, in the car, out. I've gotta go home. I want to get back to my life. I love it back there.
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I don't have to meet actors. I'm really blessed that I don't have to do all that horseshit.
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It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.
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I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.
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It made me proud to know I'd join a long gallery of actors covered in blood in movies.
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I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
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Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.
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My casting process was slightly different and slightly interesting insofar as I knew everybody could act. That's something you've seen. You know people can. You've seen them on the screen and you think either they're a good actor or a bad actor. So that's not the point. What I wanted to do was find people who I thought would have a similar comic sensibility.
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I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.
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Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.
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Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.
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The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you’re way ahead of the game.
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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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It's impossible to put your finger on what that is exactly other than protecting the environment that the actors get to find the scenes and build the scenes and invest in them. I think that's key and that's what I've learned from all the great directors I've worked with.
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I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.
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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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Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'
