Actors Quotes
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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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Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.
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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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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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If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
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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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For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.
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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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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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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. I do.
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It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
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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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If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.
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If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts, and the best parts make the greatest actors. There are plenty of people who are as talented, who just never got the part.
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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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I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.
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In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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I really love being a character actor.
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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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A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
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There are quite a few actors in the business who are much more difficult than kids or monkeys.
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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.
