Actors Quotes - Page 3

• Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Success, Fake People, Truth

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• A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

  Kevin Bacon

  Encouragement, Giving, Acting

  "Tim Robbins And Kevin Bacon Discuss Mystic River". Interview with Fred Topel, www.ign.com. October 10, 2013.

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• An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

  Laurence Sterne

  Hands, Able, Should

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• I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

  Mark Ruffalo

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• Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

  Dario Argento

  Girl, Young, Great Actors

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• Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Acting, Doe, Comedy

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• People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

  Juliette Binoche

  Thinking, People, Want

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• The best actors do not let the wheels show.

  Milan Kundera

  Funny, Humorous, Acting

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• For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Funny, Success, Art

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• You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

  Jane Fonda

  Funny, Humorous, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All actors are incredibly insecure.

  Terence Stamp

  Insecure

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Acting, Theater, Stage

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• I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

  Gary Kemp

  Musician, Pops, Wanted

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• If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Practice, Acting, Stage Actors

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• If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

  Thornton Wilder

  Secret, Acting, Agents

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• If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

  Robert De Niro

  Motivational, Character, Acting

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• When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

  Harrison Ford

  Firsts, Ambient Music

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• Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

  Robin Tunney

  Giving, Three, Dialect

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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

  Mario Lopez

  Opportunity, Wells, Company

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• Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

  Christoph Waltz

  Father, Challenges, Becoming

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Men, Expression, Sticks

  Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”

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• Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

  William Hazlitt

  Hypocrite, Theatre, Honest

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

  Michael Caine

  Funny, Humorous, Theatre

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• Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

  Francesca Annis

  Sound, Want, Retreat

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