Actors Quotes - Page 11

• Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

  George Burns

  Funny, Success, Fake People

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• To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

  James Dean

  People, Acting, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Acting, Half

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• Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

  W. C. Fields

  Husband, Devil, Acting

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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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• Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

  Bela Lugosi

  States, Capitalist, Managers

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• I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

  Jeremy Irons

  Character, Thinking, Swag

  Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

  Patty Duke

  Creative, Risk, Lines

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

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• Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.

  Clifton Davis

  Real, Men, Guy

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• You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Character, Space, Surfing

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

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• I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Funny, Sarcastic, Acting

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• Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.

  Uwe Boll

  Two, Hollywood, Stills

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

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• If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Stupid, Apathy

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.223

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• I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

  Bette Davis

  Regret, Apology, Enemy

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

  Patrick Macnee

  Writing, Play, Skills

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• The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Cutting, Play, Long

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• I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.

  Josh Holloway

  Stars, Independent, Seven

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• Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

  Matthew Modine

  Thinking, Used, Frank

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• I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

  Franka Potente

  Trying, Directors, Lame

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Humor, Comedian, Imitation

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• People should realize that I shot a Coke commercial back in 1986. So, you know, I've been around a long time. I carry my Screen Actors Guild Card.

  Kato Kaelin

  Long, People, Cards

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Actors always have opinions.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Opinion

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• Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

  Donal Logue

  Kids, Stuff, Imagine

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

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• I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.

  Felicity Huffman

  Married, Fantastic

  "Hoffman, Witherspoon capture SAG Awards". www.today.com. January 30, 2006.

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