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Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him.
Author:
Daphne Zuniga
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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
Author:
Johann Zimmermann
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I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this.
Author:
Michael York
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It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.
Author:
William Wyler
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I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.
Author:
Jeffrey Wright
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After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.
Author:
Alfre Woodard
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There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.
Author:
Evan Wood
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There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.
Author:
Dick Wolf
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Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that.
Author:
Marie Windsor
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
Author:
Walter Winchell
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
Author:
Owen Wilson
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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Author:
Colin Wilson
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You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.
Author:
Michael Wilding
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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'
Author:
Gene Wilder
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Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.
Author:
Dianne Wiest
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I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.
Author:
Donald Westlake
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I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.
Author:
Samuel West
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I know a lot of actors don't watch themselves on TV, but I think it's good to see how else you can improve.
Author:
Michael Welch
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
Author:
Rachel Weisz
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It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.
Author:
Rachel Weisz
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Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.
Author:
Amy Weber
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As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.
Author:
Emily Watson
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Billy Campbell who is... I... truly one of the most talented actors today.
Author:
Sela Ward
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I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.
Author:
Eli Wallach
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I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
Author:
Eli Wallach
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I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.
Author:
Christopher Walken
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A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.
Author:
Mark Wahlberg
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There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.
Author:
Karl Urban
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.
Author:
Aisha Tyler
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I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors.
Author:
John Turturro
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Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.
Author:
Lars Trier
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It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue.
Author:
Robert Towne
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I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.
Author:
Rip Torn
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I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.
Author:
Mel Torme
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Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.
Author:
Sean Thomas
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It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise.
Author:
David Talbot
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In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.
Author:
Max Sydow
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The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
Author:
Gloria Swanson
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The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.
Author:
Gloria Stuart
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I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising.
Author:
Lusia Strus
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If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.
Author:
Tara Strong
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Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.
Author:
Meryl Streep
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I was very pleased you know, and I was afraid that I might stick out, but I didn't. My happiest thing about that picture is that I proved that American actors can speak as well and also fit in with an ensemble like that.
Author:
Rod Steiger
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I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody.
Author:
Rod Steiger
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There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.
Author:
Mary Steenburgen
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Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.
Author:
Konstantin Stanislavisky
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All actors are incredibly insecure.
Author:
Terence Stamp
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I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security.
Author:
Robert Stack
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We reinvent ourselves to solve a client's problem. It's more than just tweaking. It's rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn't that what great actors constantly do?
Author:
Merrie Spaeth
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Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
Author:
Barry Sonnenfeld
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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
Author:
Stephen Sondheim
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Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.
Author:
Todd Solondz
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I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
Author:
Kate Smith
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Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.
Author:
Louise Slaughter
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Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?
Author:
Gene Siskel
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I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
Author:
Gary Sinise
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I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.
Author:
Gary Sinise
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The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors.
Author:
John Singleton
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I do believe all actors are smart.
Author:
Ron Silver
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Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.
Author:
Joel Siegel
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And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.
Author:
David Selby
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Author:
Walter Scott
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A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.
Author:
Tony Scott
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A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.
Author:
Izabella Scorupco
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
Author:
Barbet Schroeder
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Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused.
Author:
Liev Schreiber
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Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.
Author:
John Schlesinger
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There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
Author:
John Schlesinger
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Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.
Author:
Greta Scacchi
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Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.
Author:
Greta Scacchi
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It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.
Author:
Fred Savage
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I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.
Author:
Henry Rollins
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I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
Author:
Wayne Rogers
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Have you ever talked to someone, and you're not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.
Author:
Joe Rogan
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There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
Author:
Antoine Rivarol
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Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
Author:
Keanu Reeves
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My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.
Author:
Satyajit Ray
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Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.
Author:
John Ratzenberger
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I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.
Author:
Tony Randall
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The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.
Author:
Tony Randall
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I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.
Author:
Charlotte Rampling
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A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all.
Author:
Charlotte Rampling
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You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.
Author:
Charlotte Rae
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I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile.
Author:
Anthony Quinn
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If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.
Author:
Victoria Pratt
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Actors cannot go on for over running around the trees.
Author:
Rajendra Prasad
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I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.
Author:
Franka Potente
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
Author:
Natalie Portman
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The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
Author:
John Polanyi
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I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.
Author:
Donald Pleasence
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When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.
Author:
Michael Pitt
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I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.
Author:
Ryan Phillippe
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Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
Author:
Barry Pepper
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Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around.
Author:
Austin Peck
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That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.
Author:
Alexander Payne
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When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.
Author:
Jason Patric
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When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.
Author:
Jason Patric
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The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.
Author:
Estelle Parsons
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Actors should be timeless and impersonal.
Author:
Anne Parillaud
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Actors always have opinions.
Author:
Joe Pantoliano
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I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors.
Author:
Joe Pantoliano
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Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.
Author:
Joe Pantoliano
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There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.
Author:
Gwyneth Paltrow
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It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.
Author:
Miranda Otto
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It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.
Author:
Jerry Orbach
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I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A.
Author:
Jerry Orbach
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The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.
Author:
Ivor Novello
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Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.
Author:
Ivor Novello
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I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.
Author:
Jeremy Northam
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The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.
Author:
Christopher Nolan
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I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.
Author:
Judd Nelson
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What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.
Author:
Cillian Murphy
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
Author:
Kate Moss
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Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood.
Author:
Vic Morrow
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Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.
Author:
Daniel Moran
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Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.
Author:
Matthew Modine
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Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.
Author:
Helen Mirren
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I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise.
Author:
Marvin Minsky
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Actors really should be tramps.
Author:
Martin Milner
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I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.
Author:
Wentworth Miller
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Actors die so loud.
Author:
Henry Miller
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I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing.
Author:
Jason Mewes
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Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
Author:
Sam Mendes
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But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we had collected and assigned them to characters who would be played by actors.
Author:
Jim McKay
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I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.
Author:
Rose McGowan
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For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together.
Author:
Reba McEntire
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We chose the actors thru a series of auditions when we started the show.
Author:
Craig McCracken
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What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me.
Author:
Marlee Matlin
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
Author:
Olivier Martinez
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When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.
Author:
Marla Maples
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I have always been a Malibu Man, like all actors.
Author:
Nick Mancuso
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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
Author:
John Major
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Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.
Author:
William Macy
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You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all.
Author:
James MacArthur
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Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
Author:
Bernie Mac
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But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them.
Author:
Kelly Lynch
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In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.
Author:
Kelly Lynch
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
Author:
Bela Lugosi
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
Author:
Bela Lugosi
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I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.
Author:
Josh Lucas
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Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well.
Author:
Mario Lopez
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I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.
Author:
Mike Lookinland
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Most of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do.
Author:
Jeremy London
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Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.
Author:
Donal Logue
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Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.
Author:
Jake Lloyd
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We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything.
Author:
James Lipton
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They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.
Author:
James Lipton
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Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing.
Author:
Ray Liotta
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I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
Author:
Daniel Lewis
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Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.
Author:
Barry Levinson
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Actors are such an insecure breed.
Author:
Joshua Leonard
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Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors.
Author:
Jay Leno
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No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.
Author:
John Leeson
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Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.
Author:
Patrice Leconte
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Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
Author:
Nicholas Lea
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I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me.
Author:
Robert Lansing
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I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.
Author:
Angela Lansbury
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I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.
Author:
Frank Langella
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All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe.
Author:
Joe Lando
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Directors, like actors, get typecast.
Author:
John Landis
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Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
Author:
Hedy Lamarr
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Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.
Author:
Christine Lahti
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The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.
Author:
Christine Lahti
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The best actors do not let the wheels show.
Author:
Milan Kundera
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There are no small parts. Only small actors.
Author:
Milan Kundera
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As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.
Author:
Sylvia Kristel
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Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.
Author:
Boris Kodjoe
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I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.
Author:
Don Knotts
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I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.
Author:
Werner Klemperer
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I know many great actors who have small heads.
Author:
Catherine Keener
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There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.
Author:
Elia Kazan
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And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.
Author:
James Jones
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I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.
Author:
James Jones
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Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors.
Author:
Dwayne Johnson
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I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely.
Author:
Jim Jarmusch
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Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.
Author:
Thomas Jane
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Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.
Author:
Derek Jacobi
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You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors.
Author:
Derek Jacobi
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Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.
Author:
Derek Jacobi
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Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?
Author:
Joseph Jackson
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Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
Author:
Jeremy Irons
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I think most actors like to be liked.
Author:
Anjelica Huston
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I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.
Author:
William Hurt
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David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.
Author:
William Hurt
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I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.
Author:
John Hurt
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It's hard to compare actors from different generations.
Author:
Kim Hunter
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It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!
Author:
John Hughes
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To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.
Author:
Stephen Hopkins
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Author:
Alfred Hitchcock
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I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
Author:
Barbara Hershey
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I actually like working with the other three actors on the show.
Author:
Sean Hayes
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Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
Author:
Helen Hayes
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I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.
Author:
Ian Hart
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The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
Author:
Margaret Halsey
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Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.
Author:
Anthony Hall
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You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.
Author:
Anthony Hall
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Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.
Author:
Gene Hackman
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There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.
Author:
Steve Guttenberg
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Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
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Val Guest
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The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
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Rachel Griffiths
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There are no small parts; there are only small actors.
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Melanie Griffith
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A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
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Eva Green
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It's well known that actors are lousy writers.
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Richard Grant
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When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.
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Hugh Grant
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Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar
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Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.
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Tony Goldwyn
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I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.
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Jeff Goldblum
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These are extremely talented actors who are all putting their talents into the Lost in Space movie.
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Mark Goddard
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A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films.
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Tyrese Gibson
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I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.
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Richard Gere
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Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.
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Richard Gere
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It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.
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Anna Friel
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The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
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Morgan Freeman
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When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them.
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Brendan Fraser
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I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.
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Dennis Franz
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If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors.
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John Frankenheimer
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I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.
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Jonathan Frakes
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Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
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Richard Foreman
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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Harrison Ford
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Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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Harrison Ford
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If I was going to be broke I decided I might as well be with actors as anyone else. They were cheerful idiots and seemed to take it better.
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Peter Finch
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I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.
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Mike Figgis
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In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.
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Mike Figgis
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This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.
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Chow Fat
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We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set.
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Peter Farrelly
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Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.
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Peter Farrelly
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I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.
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Jerry Falwell
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Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.
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Robert Englund
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Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't have to worry so much about the studio and all the other actors and all that.
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David Ellis
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I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.
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Sam Elliott
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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Aaron Eckhart
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For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.
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David Duchovny
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Some actors just won't bend, and then it's a bitch. You either fight or find ways of putting your words in their mouth and letting them say it back at you.
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Richard Donner
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I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.
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James Denton
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I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.
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Catherine Deneuve
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A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day.
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Catherine Deneuve
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I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.
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Judi Dench
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It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.
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Judi Dench
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Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.
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Bruce Davison
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I talked to everyone about the project: actors and extras, members of the crew and passers by.
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James D'arcy
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Actors are very generous.
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Blythe Danner
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Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.
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Tim Curry
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I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.
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Macaulay Culkin
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I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.
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Kevin Costner
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When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.
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Kevin Costner
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Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.
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Steve Coogan
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It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.
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Bill Condon
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I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does.
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Ethan Coen
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I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy.
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Glenn Close
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We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.
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Glenn Close
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They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!
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Alan Clark
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I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.
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Claudia Christian
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When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.
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Helena Christensen
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The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.
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Joan Chen
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They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase.
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Chevy Chase
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Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
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Charlie Chaplin
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I like to give my actors a lot of room.
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Nick Cassavetes
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I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
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Rosanne Cash
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James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.
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Leslie Caron
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I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.
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Jimmy Cannon
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Most cartoonists are failed actors.
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Milton Caniff
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The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
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James Cameron
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Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.
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Steve Buscemi
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Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.
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Morgan Brittany
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Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.
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Jeff Bridges
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Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.
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Beau Bridges
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Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.
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Eileen Brennan
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If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
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Marlon Brando
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The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.
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Kenneth Branagh
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There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.
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Kenneth Branagh
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I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar.
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Kenneth Branagh
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But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
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Lakhdar Brahimi
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A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
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Bruce Boxleitner
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My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne.
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Joseph Bologna
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Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.
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Uwe Boll
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Actors don't have real value.
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Uwe Boll
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Uwe Boll
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I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.
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Eric Bogosian
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Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
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Buffalo Bill
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Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.
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Daniel Berrigan
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Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.
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Peter Berg
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It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.
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Dirk Benedict
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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Samantha Bee
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A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea.
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Phyllis Battelle
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The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
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Ethel Barrymore
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When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.
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Julia Barr
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We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.
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Javier Bardem
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It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
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Christian Bale
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Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.
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Christian Bale
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We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.
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Tom Baker
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Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
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Tom Baker
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It confirms for me that we did something on Days that meant something. We had our ups and downs, but Missy and I and some of the other actors, created something that was really memorable.
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Matthew Ashford
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I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
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Bea Arthur
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Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.
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Dario Argento
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You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
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Michelangelo Antonioni
