Actors Quotes - Page 7

• 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.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Trying, Documentaries, Film

  "A Conversation with Daniel Berrigan". Rattle Interview, www.rattle.com. May 3, 2016.

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• Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.

  Uwe Boll

  Heart, Impact, America

  "Boll, Uwe (Bloodrayne)". Interview with Jon Condit, www.dreadcentral.com. January 1, 2006.

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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.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Editors, Directors, Film

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• Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.

  Cedric Hardwicke

  Thinking, Practice, Might

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

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• As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.

  Sanjay Dutt

  Different, Genre, Theme

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• I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

  Kent McCord

  Eight, Years, Lucky

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• I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

  Kate Smith

  Stage

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• There is always one person on the set who has a lot of anxiety, an actor who is really intense and has to stay in character and holds himself away from the rest of us.

  Maria Bello

  Character, Anxiety, Intense

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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.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Delight, Celebration, Moments

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• I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

  Meryl Streep

  People, Way, Inspired

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• There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Thinking, People, Secret

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• I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

  Sean Penn

  People, Acting, My Favorite

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• Actors are one family over the entire world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Family, World

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• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Time, Player

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Feelings, Acting, Joints

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building A Character”, p.320, Routledge

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• Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

  Orson Welles

  Fake People, Believe, Heart

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• Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

  Thornton Wilder

  Play, Signatures, Directors

  The New York Mirror, July 13, 1956.

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• Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work. Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dark

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Competition, Healthy, Acting

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• The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Character, Play

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1840). “The life and exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha: In four volumes”, p.27

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• An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they must go looking for it. Plays are written about...the extraordinary, the unusual, the climaxes. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Drama, Play, Interesting

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• It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth

  Elia Kazan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

  Elia Kazan (2011). “Elia Kazan: A Life”, p.485, Knopf

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• I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

  Sasha Alexander

  Inspirational, Motivational, Preparation

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• Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

  Glenda Jackson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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

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• We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Acting, Want, Realizing

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