Actors Quotes
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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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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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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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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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If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
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I really love being a character actor.
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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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There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.
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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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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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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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Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.
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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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Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.
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I can't dance like Hrithik Roshan. I don't have the necessary glamour like some of the other actors do. They are able to sell themselves on that aspect. I do roles and films which are very realistic. So, in those films, if you don't get into the skin of it, they won't look convincing.
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Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.
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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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Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program, see my Return of the Jedi credit and say, 'Oh, you were part of Star Wars.' I smile and say, 'Yes, but only for twenty-six and a half seconds.'
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I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.
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I - you know, I'm not an actor.
