Actors Quotes
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I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.
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Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
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I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.
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I love exploring in a rehearsal room with other actors, scenes and you know, stuff you are scared of.
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The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors.
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Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.
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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.
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It's nice to have recognition for doing a good job, but at the end of the day, I'm just an actor and I'm doing my job and I'm always trying to get better at doing that job.
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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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And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.
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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.
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Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.
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I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.
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A real explosion is not only much more fun to shoot, it also helps the actors and creates an energy on set and ultimately in the scene.
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When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.
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When we were young people, all we ever wanted was to be good working actors. We didn't think of fame or money because, honestly, money was never part of the dream.
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I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.
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The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
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If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
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Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.
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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.
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A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
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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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There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.
