Actors Quotes
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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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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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Hitchcock said he viewed actors as cattle.. but some were free range.
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Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.
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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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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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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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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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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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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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Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.
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I think all actors are professional liars.
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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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Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders...
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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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The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.
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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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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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Actors are such an insecure breed.
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People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
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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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I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.
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Let's be honest, any show will live or die based on how good the characters are, how good the actors are, how complicated the relationships are, how grounded they are and how much heart they have.
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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.
