Actors Quotes
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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 are such an insecure breed.
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Watching live actors onstage, in something that changes night by night, real people picking up cues from each other, it concentrates you on the process rather than the result.
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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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Billy Campbell who is... I... truly one of the most talented actors today.
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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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Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.
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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 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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We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.
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The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you’re way ahead of the game.
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I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.
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I like to give my actors a lot of room.
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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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As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.
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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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Most actors feel only one way. We're just grateful to have a job.
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I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
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My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.
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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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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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As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.
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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 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.
