Actors Quotes
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My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen.
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Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.
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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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The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.
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I really love being a character actor.
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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 certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
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I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
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I like to give my actors a lot of room.
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In the first place, I'm pretty thorough about whom I choose. I instinctively look for the kind of actor who is going to be trusting. There are all kinds of insecure people out there called actors.
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I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.
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Well, it was interesting because when I was going to do it the first time in my head was Leonardo DiCaprio for Chris and Marlon Brando was going to play the character that Hal Holbrook eventually played. But then when it wasn't to be and there was no promise that it ever would be I think some part of me didn't want to attach specifics to it anymore - actors or anything else - because I wanted to see it made that much more badly.
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I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.
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Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.
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I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.
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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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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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I'm always excited to work with actors.
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In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.
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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.
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I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.
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I am a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking mostly Thai food. And a lot of times on movies, you have these trailers that have these little ovens and kitchenettes. A lot of actors never use them, but I would cook lunch just about every day.
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I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.
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I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.
