Actors Quotes
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I am a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking mostly Thai food. And a lot of times on movies, you have these trailers that have these little ovens and kitchenettes. A lot of actors never use them, but I would cook lunch just about every day.
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I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.
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Actors are, in a sense, like athletes. They've got to stretch once in a while.
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If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?
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As an actor, you have to have your history.
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In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds.
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A real explosion is not only much more fun to shoot, it also helps the actors and creates an energy on set and ultimately in the scene.
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I think basically an actor is a salesman.
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Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.
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I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
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The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character.
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My casting process was slightly different and slightly interesting insofar as I knew everybody could act. That's something you've seen. You know people can. You've seen them on the screen and you think either they're a good actor or a bad actor. So that's not the point. What I wanted to do was find people who I thought would have a similar comic sensibility.
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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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Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.
Nick Willing
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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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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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I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
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I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.
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I'm afraid of being too sure, to just deliver. I think that's the biggest danger for actors - after a certain time, when you're known and recognised, people expect you to do what you're supposed to do, and there's almost no more criticism and that's very dangerous.
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As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.
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Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.
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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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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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It's interesting for me to do the commentary with the actors because, as a director, you're so in your own world that you see it from your perspective, your issues and what you were trying to do, and then it's really very fun to hear their perspective on how it was to do a particular scene or how they felt, and sometimes, I didn't even know that, at the time.
