Actors Quotes
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If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.
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I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.
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I've done interviews with actors who I've worked with who I really like, and I'm like, "Wow, look at you. You're just going on . . . You don't even know what you're saying!"
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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.
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It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.
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I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.
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If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.
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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.
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If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.
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I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.
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I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.
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You've got to do the big studio movies to get your name, but as an actor and for your own well-being you kind of need to step back from that occasionally and do the smaller films. In the end, that's what helps you learn and makes you a better actor.
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Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether the script's working, or if the actors are acting well, but also the colours.
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The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.
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My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.
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As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.
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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.
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If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.
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I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.
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Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.
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I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.
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Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.
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Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
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I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
