Actors Quotes - Page 14

• A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.

  Ewan McGregor

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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• It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.

  Richard Corliss

  Art, Jobs, Passion

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• In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game.

  Bryan Cranston

  Order, Games, People

  "Bryan Cranston: 'I had to take my character from Mr Chips to Scarface" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• It’s a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that’s why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It’s therapeutic.

  Stella Maeve

  Nice, Reality, Thinking

  "Stella Maeve On 'Golden Boy' and Being Named After Stella Adler". Interview with Shelley Brown, www.backstage.com. February 21, 2013.

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• Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

  Maxim Gorky

  Needs, Genius, Talent

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• As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

  Carla Gugino

  Naked, Revealing

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

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• As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.

  Jeremy Northam

  Play, Roles, Position

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• I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

  Matthew Lewis

  Thinking, Always Trying, Always Learning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

  Peter Billingsley

  Drama, Commitment, Thinking

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• Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

  Anne Archer

  Odds, Soul, Natural Instinct

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• The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

  Thomas Heywood

  Nature, Theatre, World

  Thomas Heywood, John Addington Symonds (1888). “Thomas Heywood”

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• An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Inspirational, Women, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Railroads, Roles, Movement

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  People, Personality, Acting

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• An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

  Alec Guinness

  Personality, Ego, Acting

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

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• As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Running, Want, Paradoxical

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• When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel the ground beneath them and the wind on their faces, they get a wider view of their personal world and development in the theater is quickened. The world provides the material for the theater and artistic growth develops hand-in-hand with one's recognition of it and one's self within it.

  Viola Spolin

  Air, Self, Views

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• My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Father, Age, Generations

  "Amber Tamblyn and Blake Lively talk Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. May 25, 2005.

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• You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

  Kenneth Haigh

  Play, Giving, Theatre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Soul, Tears

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, College, Men

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• Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Talking, Aces

  "Major in Success". Book by Patrick Combs and Jack Canfield, 2003.

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• I was trained to be an actor, not a star.

  Gene Hackman

  Stars

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy.

  Henry Darrow

  Boys, Littles, Wanted

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• We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.

  Gerald McRaney

  Marijuana, Car, Smoking

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