Actors Quotes
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Usually I approach to acting completely blindfolded. I read the script, I connect to the character, and then I try not to think about it too much until I'm there and I'm in wardrobe and I'm with the other actors and we're going through the scene once.
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I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
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What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.
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I know many great actors who have small heads.
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I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
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What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.
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One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.
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A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day.
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My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.
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If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.
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Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.
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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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As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.
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I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.
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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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Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.
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I think that all the Mel Brooks' company of actors is just tremendous. It was a crazy group of genius people. All of them taught me what kind of actor I should be and what was funny.
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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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Let me be honest - I might do a franchise film like 'Golmaal' if it comes my way. Eventually, we are all in Mumbai to become bigger stars, not better actors.
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The contentious issue of pay parity between male and female actors is easily resolvable if a number of big actresses decide to put their foot down. But we have to also consider the factors of time and labour. If a female actor has shot only for 40 days and the male actor for 200 days, she cannot expect to be paid the same amount.
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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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I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.
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When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends.
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Actors are such an insecure breed.
