Actors Quotes
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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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It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.
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Since we've done that type of work [ voiceover], we know how isolating it can be, and we wanted to make the actors more comfortable.
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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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As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.
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I think as an actor, it's very exciting when you have a really fully realized, complex, multifaceted character already established.
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William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time
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Anything that you as an actor can change about yourself for a part is helpful.
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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 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 was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.
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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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Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.
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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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It's the rare happening when actors get together and you have chemistry, connection, just something that works, that's bigger than what's on the page.
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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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TV is a wasteland. It's a bunch of news actors that read off a prompter.
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I had a lovely experience once in Africa working with the U.N. when a president of a country met me about refugee issues and said ‘What do you do?’ I said ‘I‘m an actor.’ He replied ‘I heard that was a very difficult job and might not be the smartest job to do.’ It was lovely.
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Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.
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Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. The vacancy which afflicts them in private momentarily lifts when, oncemore, they feel the eyes of an audience upon them. Their old passion for holding the centre of the stage guides their uncertain footsteps to where the footlights shine, and summons up a wintry smile when the curtain rises.
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It's very embarrassing to talk of your own work before shooting for it and even before it is released. I have been a witness to many of our actors turning red-faced after their films release. I'd rather not be there.
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Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
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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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I did a movie in Esperanto.
