Actors Quotes
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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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Actors are, in a sense, like athletes. They've got to stretch once in a while.
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Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.
Nick Willing -
I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.
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Billy Campbell who is... I... truly one of the most talented actors today.
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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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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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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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I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.
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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.
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Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.
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There are a lot of people who want to be famous nowadays: singers, actors and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And when you are very sensitive - I'm very sensitive - you have to be very strong... You have to just not pay attention to the people who hate you, you know?
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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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I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
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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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All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.
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I love working with actors. I do.
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.
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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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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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I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on.
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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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I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.
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As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna.
