Actors Quotes
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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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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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I love a lot of comedy actors and actresses like Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey and all those women who are really brilliant and funny.
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When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.
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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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All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.
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My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.
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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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Billy Campbell who is... I... truly one of the most talented actors today.
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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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Actors have no color. That's the art form.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.
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Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.
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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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I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.
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A good actor makes clear the meaning of the words. A better actor gives also the emotion of the part. The best actor adds emotion of which the character is unconscious.
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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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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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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.
