Actors Quotes
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If I wasn't an actor? Hmm, I'd probably be a serial killer. I'm just so damn likeable, no one would ever suspect me.
Zach Braff -
Anything that you as an actor can change about yourself for a part is helpful.
Michael Pitt
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I do feel fortunate in that I am probably allowed more often to be a character actor then most actors are allowed to be, and I don't take that lightly or superficially at all. I mean, I really do appreciate it.
John Travolta -
I have a desire to work with some actors I really like, so I hope to get out there soon and be back at it - maybe a little less music in the next one.
Cameron Crowe -
When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.
Viola Davis -
Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.
Katharine Cornell -
That is a gift to have four weeks to rehearse something. But remember, when you're doing a play half of that time you're getting to know the play and the other actors and then finally in the third week you have it pretty much on its feet. So it's all relative in different ways.
Jeff Fahey -
Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.
Scott Bakula
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I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.
John Travolta -
I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day so instead I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society and I play golf with all sorts of people.
Phil Daniels -
What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about theatre. Why do we love it that there are nine Hamletsor six King Lears over two years? We love to watch a different actor attack the same material.
Kevin Spacey -
Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying ‘God I hope I don’t screw this up.’ But at the same time, the directors are saying, ‘God, I hope this person is the savior.’ You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don’t get the job you don’t already have.
George Clooney -
To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.
Tom Stoppard -
Mr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle.
James Stewart
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Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.
Kevin Spacey -
There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
Kevin Spacey -
I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.
Noel Clarke -
If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.
Kevin Spacey -
My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.
Michael Caine -
I think as an actor, it's very exciting when you have a really fully realized, complex, multifaceted character already established.
Da'Vine Joy Randolph
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I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.
Tommy Lee Jones -
When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
If you are a professional actor who has pride in his work, then the judgment of your peers should be important to you. I treasure each and every award I have ever received - and my Oscar is in a place of honor.
Sofia Villani Scicolone -
A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.
Ang Lee