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Image of Garry Marshall
I wasn't really that good at being a musician. And then I tried being a standup. I was an actor. I was a photographer. I tried everything. Nothing was particularly working for me, but then, as a musician, I wrote jokes for comics. And they started to buy my jokes, and that's where I thought maybe that might work.
- Garry Marshall
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Image of Nathan Fillion
When I was a waiter I was fired twice from the same restaurant. I guess I was that good of an actor but that bad of a waiter.
- Nathan Fillion
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Image of Michelangelo Antonioni
Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.
- Michelangelo Antonioni
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Image of Pam Grier
I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.
- Pam Grier
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Image of Jeff Goldblum
Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.
- Jeff Goldblum
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Image of Clark Gable
Method actors are like hams.
- Clark Gable
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Image of Aristophanes
An actor should refine public taste.
- Aristophanes
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Image of Morgan Freeman
I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.
- Morgan Freeman
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Image of Stephen Fry
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.
- Stephen Fry
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Image of Zach Anner
I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."
- Zach Anner
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Image of Andrew Garfield
I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If I'd wanted to have autonomy - if that was what I was after - then I could have chosen another profession.
- Andrew Garfield
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Image of Adam Rapp
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
- Adam Rapp
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Image of Antonin Artaud
The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
- Antonin Artaud
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Image of Anna Friel
When I'm working, it's those actors (you know who you are) who sit around moaning that their trailer isn't big enough, or how bad their facilities are. I can't be doing with any of that, I just like to get on with it.
- Anna Friel
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Image of Morgan Freeman
Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.
- Morgan Freeman
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Image of Richard Gere
I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.
- Richard Gere
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Image of Michel Gondry
I'm always excited to work with actors.
- Michel Gondry
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Image of Billie Joe Armstrong
Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.
- Billie Joe Armstrong
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Image of Morgan Freeman
The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.
- Morgan Freeman
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Image of Morgan Freeman
It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.
- Morgan Freeman
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Image of Jamie Foxx
When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.
- Jamie Foxx
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Image of Bob Hope
I've never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn't know how really great he is.
- Bob Hope
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Image of Colin Hanks
I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process.
- Colin Hanks
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Image of Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
- Alfred Hitchcock
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Image of Tom Hiddleston
I don't want to be quoted as 'Tom Hiddleston, psychologist says...' But there is a psychological aspect to being an actor. We are particular students of human nature - not every actor is, of course, but that's what fascinates me about being an actor.
- Tom Hiddleston
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Image of Tom Hiddleston
As an actor, it's much, much easier to be really nasty to someone that you really like.
- Tom Hiddleston
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Image of Alfred Hitchcock
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock
- Alfred Hitchcock
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Image of Katharine Hepburn
Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.
- Katharine Hepburn
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Image of William Monahan
For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them.
- William Monahan
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Image of Anthony Hopkins
I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.
- Anthony Hopkins
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Image of Anthony Hopkins
You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.
- Anthony Hopkins
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Image of Anne Hathaway
I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.
- Anne Hathaway
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Image of Rowan Atkinson
If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
- Rowan Atkinson
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Image of Jake Gyllenhaal
Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.
- Jake Gyllenhaal
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Image of Tom Hanks
The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.
- Tom Hanks
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Image of Daryl Hannah
It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.
- Daryl Hannah
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Image of Jake Gyllenhaal
As Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor. My sister [Maggie Gyllenhaal] came up to me recently after she saw this movie, Southpaw, the movie I did, and she thought there was this exploration of that type of presentation, and a bit of representation as well, if I could be totally honest, where she was deeply moved.
- Jake Gyllenhaal
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Image of Hank Azaria
That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."
- Hank Azaria
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Image of Lauren Bacall
All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.
- Lauren Bacall
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Image of Hugh Jackman
A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.
- Hugh Jackman
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Image of Nicole Kidman
You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.
- Nicole Kidman
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Image of Scarlett Johansson
I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've always been pretty fast with.
- Scarlett Johansson
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Image of Kurt Fuller
I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.
- Kurt Fuller
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Image of Tommy Lee Jones
I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.
- Tommy Lee Jones
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Image of Abbas Kiarostami
Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing.
- Abbas Kiarostami
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Image of Elia Kazan
I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
- Elia Kazan
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Image of Shahrukh Khan
More than an actor, I am a performer. I'm a great believer
- Shahrukh Khan
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Image of Doug Liman
It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can do a stunt.
- Doug Liman
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Image of Mike Colter
As an actor, you learn, every time you work.
- Mike Colter
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