Actors Quotes
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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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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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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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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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You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
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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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Actors have no color. That's the art form.
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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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I love working with actors. I do.
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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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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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The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.
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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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Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.
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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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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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I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!!!
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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.
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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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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 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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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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I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.
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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.
