Actors Quotes
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Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.
Cary Elwes -
Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.
Ethan Hawke
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In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.
Ryan Gosling -
I'm a professional at what I do. I'm an actor. I've been on enough movie sets to know the difference between a stage light and an apple box. I know the difference. Why? Because I've been around it long enough and I know.
Michael B. Jordan -
It's interesting for me to do the commentary with the actors because, as a director, you're so in your own world that you see it from your perspective, your issues and what you were trying to do, and then it's really very fun to hear their perspective on how it was to do a particular scene or how they felt, and sometimes, I didn't even know that, at the time.
Catherine Hardwicke -
I think basically an actor is a salesman.
Paul Lynde -
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.
Michael Ian Black -
I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.
Michel Gondry
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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.
Michael Pitt -
Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.
Carrie Fisher -
I love exploring in a rehearsal room with other actors, scenes and you know, stuff you are scared of.
Ewan McGregor -
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.
Tommy Lee Jones -
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.
Wentworth Miller -
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.
Tony Gilroy
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Actors have no color. That's the art form.
Whoopi Goldberg -
If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
Ryan Gosling -
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.
Edwin Percy Whipple -
I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.
Humphrey Bogart -
You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.
Michael Morpurgo -
In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
Michael Caine
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Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.
Eric Stoltz -
I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor.
Rebel Wilson -
I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.
Morena Baccarin -
I'll never admit that I'm an actor, because the next horrible follow-up question is always, "Oh, what have I seen you in?"
Michael Ian Black