Actors Quotes
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I think as an actor you can feel when something's right and when something's resonating. I don't think that there's necessarily a right and a wrong. I think it's just a matter of being honest and telling a story.
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In nighttime series, the actor gets billing up front on every episode.
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Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
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A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.
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As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.
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I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.
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To work with Richard [Ayoade] is my favourite thing in the world. He is my favourite person. So, it was great for me to be involved in a project that was, again, so different and with such wonderful actors. Everyone from Submarine is in the film in one way or another, which helps because it really does feel like a family.
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First we pre-visualized it [the flying fish scene in 'Life of Pi'] so the actors could act. It took a long time to get that to come to life and to design those coming out of the screen. We had great fun with that. It takes a long time, a year maybe.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.
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TV is a wasteland. It's a bunch of news actors that read off a prompter.
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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.
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You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.
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An actors most important responsibility is to know lines well.
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The big advantage is that for all the people wondering if someone is really interested, there's finally some proof one way or another. You don't have to rely on a hunch, or continue wasting time if you're in denial, which is a common scenario, ... On the flip side, it could create a generation of actors who know that their conversations are being interpreted, and therefore are less inclined to be genuine.
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I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.
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A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.
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When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.
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I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to anyone because they're in character.
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When actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.
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In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.
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Anything that you as an actor can change about yourself for a part is helpful.
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No one is banging my door down to be a superhero. I don't know how good I would be. I have low bone density, so I don't know if anyone really wants to put me in a cape and chuck me out a window. But a lot of my friends, who are great actors and who come from film, are doing TV because that's where the opportunities are. For us, it does feel like it's similar to making the movies that we used to make.
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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!"
