Actors Quotes
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It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.
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I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.
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So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
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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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If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts, and the best parts make the greatest actors. There are plenty of people who are as talented, who just never got the part.
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Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.
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And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.
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Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.
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The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.
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A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day.
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The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.
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For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.
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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.
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In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.
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Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.
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Actors are, in a sense, like athletes. They've got to stretch once in a while.
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My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.
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Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.
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Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.
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Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.
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Billy Campbell who is... I... truly one of the most talented actors today.
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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'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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If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.
