Top actors Quotes Collection - Page 3

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Image of Dee Rees
I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.
- Dee Rees
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Image of Kenneth Lonergan
I like to let the actors work the way they want to.
- Kenneth Lonergan
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Image of Josef von Sternberg
The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.
- Josef von Sternberg
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Image of Shelley Hennig
Everybody wants to be a series regular. It's something that a lot of actors would kill to have.
- Shelley Hennig
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Image of Tom Kenny
A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.
- Tom Kenny
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Image of Jenna Fischer
Cause it's really hard, it's hard to be an actor.
- Jenna Fischer
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Image of Scott Michael Foster
I can't imagine myself not being an actor.
- Scott Michael Foster
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Image of John Leeson
Got through it without fluffing, that's the main thing any actor can hope for.
- John Leeson
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Image of Israel Horovitz
Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.
- Israel Horovitz
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Image of Eric Balfour
One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.
- Eric Balfour
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Image of Spencer Boldman
I was trained as a dramatic actor. Im really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.
- Spencer Boldman
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Image of Richard McCabe
As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.
- Richard McCabe
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Image of James Gandolfini
I've never worked with an actor that I did not like.
- James Gandolfini
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Image of Jason Marsden
Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why you'll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they'll tell you, it's because of the schedule
- Jason Marsden
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Image of Danny Glover
I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to do. To this day, that’s what I do. I just added movies to it.
- Danny Glover
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Image of Richard E. Grant
It's well known that actors are lousy writers.
- Richard E. Grant
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Image of Patrick J. Adams
Troian is one of the most incredibly gifted actors I have ever seen.
- Patrick J. Adams
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Image of Michael Welch
I love any kind of recognition because as an actor I'm very hard on myself sometimes.
- Michael Welch
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Image of Sanaya Irani
I have no personal interest or gain from this , I am just an actor
- Sanaya Irani
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Image of Eric Ladin
To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.
- Eric Ladin
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Image of Carice van Houten
I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.
- Carice van Houten
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Image of Skandar Keynes
I really feel that if I did another [Narnia] film I'd just be repeating myself and I don't really want to do that as an actor.
- Skandar Keynes
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Image of Sam Huntington
I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.
- Sam Huntington
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Image of John Cameron Mitchell
If there's anything I know about directing, it's how to make actors comfortable. It's where I started and it's what I know, and it's what I love. I like when the actors are really partners and I want them to be excited and I want them to surprise me. I don't want them to be puzzle pieces.
- John Cameron Mitchell
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Image of Paddy Considine
It's such a stressful environment, I find, being an actor, being put in the chair and "Touch this, that, and the other," it's too much for me. I find it hard to tolerate that sort of stuff. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. You're wasting everyone's time.
- Paddy Considine
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Image of Ranbir Kapoor
I want to become a superstar, but for that, I first have to be a super actor.
- Ranbir Kapoor
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Image of Gena Rowlands
John [Cassavetes] loved actors. He gave them a lot of freedom. So if something came up that a certain actor just felt at the moment and said - that kind of improvisation he would accept. He gave very little direction.
- Gena Rowlands
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Image of Katharine Ross
One of an actor's fears is that your current project could be your last project.
- Katharine Ross
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Image of Victor Mature
I'm not an actor - and I've got 64 films to prove it!
- Victor Mature
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Image of Martin Grotjahn
Actors are almost impossible to treat successfully.
- Martin Grotjahn
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Image of Paul Lieberstein
The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors.
- Paul Lieberstein
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Image of Audie Cornish
The Internet kept the joke going. Abevigoda.com was devoted to updating the actor's status, as was @AbeVigodaUpdate, a Twitter account.
- Audie Cornish
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Image of Terry O'Quinn
We all hope we have something else to do. We're going to be unemployed actors. It's a consistent state of being a professional actor, in my experience.
- Terry O'Quinn
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Image of Bob Hoskins
What would I have done if I wasn't an actor? Probably rob banks.
- Bob Hoskins
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Image of Bob Hoskins
Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor.
- Bob Hoskins
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Image of Drake Doremus
I don't like to direct the actors by telling them what to do. If anything, it's reminding them where they are in the movie, what's happening emotionally and what they want in the scene.
- Drake Doremus
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Image of Ronnie Drew
I wouldn't call myself an actor or a singer for that matter, just a journeyman. [...] I feel I must have a talent somewhere for doing something but I'm still not terribly sure what it is. I suppose it's a talent for being myself.
- Ronnie Drew
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Image of Megan Hilty
As an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.
- Megan Hilty
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Image of David Ayer
Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.
- David Ayer
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Image of Clark Gregg
Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.
- Clark Gregg
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Image of Zoe Kazan
I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.
- Zoe Kazan
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Image of Tom Ellis
As an actor, I enjoy variety. That's a big thing for me.
- Tom Ellis
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Image of Henry Hopper
I resisted being an actor for some time.
- Henry Hopper
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Image of Harry Houdini
A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.
- Harry Houdini
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Image of Philip Auslander
The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.
- Philip Auslander
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Image of Ann Dowd
The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.
- Ann Dowd
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Image of Charlton Heston
As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.
- Charlton Heston
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Image of Timothy Omundson
Every actor gets their due.
- Timothy Omundson
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Image of Katharine Cornell
An actress' best friend is a body which responds instinctively to thought.
- Katharine Cornell
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