Actors Quotes
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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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As an actor, you never want to feel like a tool. You never want to feel like, "Hey, just come here, say this, stop here, look this way," and that's it. You want to have a little input.
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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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A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point to really engage the actors and really make it feel like a safe place for them to explore whatever it is they want to explore in whatever scene with their character.
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Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.
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I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character.
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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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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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Actors do these really gross, gun-'em-down movies, and I always wonder why. They're not good movies. And it's like, "Why are you doing them? Aren't you rich enough?"
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When you're on set and you professionally listen to what the other actors have to say, then the emotion is naturally evoked.
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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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Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.
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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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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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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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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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If my kids decide to be actors and really, truly love it and are passionate about it, then I would definitely want to help them along their way, but it's a tough business.
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It doesn't matter if I have experienced actors alongside or novices. It doesn't matter if the director is one film old or a hundred. All I'm interested in is doing justice to the role.
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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 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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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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We can make ourselves actors, but only the audience can make a star.
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I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.
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I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
