Actors Quotes
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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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I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.
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You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.
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Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
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My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.
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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've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
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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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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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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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I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.
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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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I think basically an actor is a salesman.
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Whenever I'm looking for actors, I'm always looking for actors who are intelligent and who feel fresh and who feel authentic to the world.
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In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.
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I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.
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Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence of imposition. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.
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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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I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!!!
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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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The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.
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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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Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.
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Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do, to get the most out of everyone's potential.
