Actors Quotes
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There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, so I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.
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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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Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.
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I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
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I like to give my actors a lot of room.
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I'm not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it's quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we're not involved as actors.
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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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As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.
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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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A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.
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In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.
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Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.
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I love a lot of comedy actors and actresses like Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey and all those women who are really brilliant and funny.
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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'm always curious about how actors cry on film.
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In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
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Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
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The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself.
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In a way, putting actors deep into this sort of complicated universe frees them from thinking about who they should be. They just are somebody.
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I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.
