Actors Quotes
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I think it's very dangerous for an actor to take shooting too seriously because I think it could really damage you if you do that.
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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 didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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I get a headache when films are too filled up with people. And I don't understand what's going on if there are too many extras walking around. This film was very comfortable for me, I want to see just the actors. This is how I can concentrate.
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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 don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.
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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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Whenever I'm looking for actors, I'm always looking for actors who are intelligent and who feel fresh and who feel authentic to the world.
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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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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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Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.
Nick Willing -
To actors on opening night: You have had good equipment to work with. You've had a theater with everything you needed, and you are involved with the play; but all the way through you have been handicapped. One essential has been denied you. Tonight the audience is there; now they are sitting out front; you have everything you need.
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I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.
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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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In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
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Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.
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I wasn't sure I wanted to be an actor.
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I'm always excited to work with actors.
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An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.
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In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.
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Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.
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I think actors like to be directed. Actors like to know where they're headed and what they want, so I'm very encouraging.
