Actors Quotes - Page 10

• Actors are such an insecure breed.

  Joshua Leonard

  Insecure

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• Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

  Lee Strasberg

  Lying, Reality, Expression

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• I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

  John Forsythe

  Hands, Next, Figure Skating

  "Actor John Forsythe Dies at 92", www.foxnews.com. April 2, 2010.

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• I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

  Lord Byron

  Sensual, Acting, Delightful

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• To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

  Marlon Brando

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dedication

  FaceBook post by Marlon Brando from May 09, 2014

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• A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Artist, Feelings, Acting

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.216, A&C Black

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• Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.

  John Sayles

  Years, Acting, Thirty

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• As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!

  Jonathan Brandis

  Pimples

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• But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Missing You, Achievement, Process

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• Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.

  Griffin Dunne

  Character, Ghouls, Voice

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• You've got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they're trying to be pop stars. You can't compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music

  Dustin Diamond

  Stars, Trying, Playing Music

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• Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.

  Desmond Llewelyn

  Retiring

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• So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

  Crystal Gayle

  Trying, Want, Singers

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• If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.

  Alfonso Ribeiro

  Acting, Want, Ifs

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• Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

  Cameron Diaz

  Over You, Scripts, Passages

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• The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

  Bela Lugosi

  Giving, Performances, Depends

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• I'm scared of actors with a scheme.

  Cate Blanchett

  Scared, Schemes

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• I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.

  Kim Basinger

  Remember, Nervous, My Favorite

  "On Second Thought: Kim Basinger". Interview with Jane Gayduk, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 08, 2018.

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• If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Acting, Half

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• I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Insecure, Thinking, People

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

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• One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Real, Men, Voice

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• No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

  James Earl Jones

  Entitlement, Entitlement Programs

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  People, Theatre, Acting

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• Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Want, Fads, Film

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• You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

  Stella Adler

  Ideas, Choices, Feelings

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.65, Hal Leonard Corporation

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