Actors Quotes
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Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... Id never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.
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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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'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.
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There's the art house movies and the action movies and the chick films. I think the same thing's happening with actors.
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As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
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I've done a couple of movies for scale, and it's the only way to get a lot of these independent movies made. The actors negotiate deals where they're given just enough money to live on during the filming, but then they participate in the back-end. If the movie suddenly makes a gazillion dollars, we'll participate in that profit.
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I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck.
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Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
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It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.
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I can pretty much tell the whole story through my eyes. Some of the best actors that you watch don't have to physically do too much.
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Mostly I've just worked with actors and actresses that are fun and easy to talk to and had nothing but great experiences.
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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'
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Every actor has their stalker.
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It's very rare that you get a part that you actually like. People have a misconception, whether it be because actors lie or because you're reading interviews from giantly, massively famous actors, but you don't just get offered parts, all the time. You actually have to work to get them.
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My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn’t want to be an actor.
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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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It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
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I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.
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What I really mean is that actors do the interview process because they have to. It's a good bargain: If I can do this part then I'll sell it. I just wish it wasn't me who had to do it because it feels very unnatural.
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I've been on sets where the turnaround is so fast and the budget so small that the actors have been asked to speed things up and save money by changing in the public toilets. There's no room for vanity at times like that. It's the best way: get on with it!
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As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.
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Sometimes actors come in, you record them, and they do their role.
