Actors Quotes
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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.
Ryan Gosling -
I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.
Anne Hathaway
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I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct them one day.
Renee O'Connor -
If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?
Sean William Scott -
Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.
Paul Newman -
I'm always excited to work with actors.
Michel Gondry -
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.
Catherine Deneuve -
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
Michael Caine
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I really love being a character actor.
Missi Pyle -
My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.
Mike Leigh -
I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
Paul Newman -
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.
Todd Solondz -
I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.
Molly Parker -
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.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe
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In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.
Michael Caine -
I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.
Michael Ealy -
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.
Celia Imrie -
Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.
Paul Newman -
One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.
Nick Cannon -
I have been in situations where actors are treated like robots: say the lines, say it like this, we don't have time for conversations. That is a terrible position to be in as an artist. You feel used.
Nia Long
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As an actor, you can show up on a set and be on a TV show for three or four years, or whatever it is and, by the end of it, you just want to do something else.
Michael Ian Black -
I'm a big fan of Frank Sinatra, he was the best at what he did. The last thing I do is model my career after him, though, because we do different things. He was a great singer and a great actor ... It never crossed my mind to emulate his career, because we have different interests.
Harry Connick, Jr. -
An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.
Humphrey Bogart -
When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
Casey Affleck