Actors Quotes
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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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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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Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders...
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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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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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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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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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Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.
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In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
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I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.
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I'm a big fan of Frank Sinatra, he was the best at what he did. The last thing I do is model my career after him, though, because we do different things. He was a great singer and a great actor ... It never crossed my mind to emulate his career, because we have different interests.
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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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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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One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.
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I honestly think I'm just an actor. It doesn't matter the medium. I can go on stage and be happy, I can be on TV and be happy.
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Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.
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An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.
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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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With actors, it's really about feeding them all the time. I don't get involved in their process. I try to do the opposite, feeding them, feeding them, feeding them, and you can see very easily how they react to it.
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I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing in public. Which is what women do: we perform, especially our sexuality.
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It's nice to have recognition for doing a good job, but at the end of the day, I'm just an actor and I'm doing my job and I'm always trying to get better at doing that job.
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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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Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.
Nick Willing
