Actors Quotes - Page 15

• I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

  Skeet Ulrich

  New York, Theater

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• As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Theatre

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 23

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• The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Being Yourself, Power, Joy

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• Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

  Warren Beatty

  Motivational, Children, Narcissistic

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• They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

  William Hazlitt

  Dream, Hypocrite, Acting

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.218

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• Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dog, Laughter, Player

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 404 (1775)

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• It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

  Richard Donner

  Movie, Hurt, Couple

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• I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Encouragement, Character, Creating

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• I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Thinking, Theatre, Directors

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

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• An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

  Maggie Smith

  Want, Emotion, Maggie

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• I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Art, Hero, Acting

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• Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

  Val Guest

  Writing, Making Money, Enough

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• All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).

  Augusto Boal

  Spectators, Humans, Human Beings

  Augusto Boal (2005). “Games for Actors and Non-Actors”, p.15, Routledge

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• The better the actor, the more stupid he is.

  Truman Capote

  Stupid, Stupidity

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• Most of my training I do in between movies, and even if I wasn't an actor I'd be doing it. I started studying martial arts when I was 14, and it's something I still do just to keep sane and feel good about myself.

  John Hyams

  Art, Feel Good, Training

  Source: wegotthiscovered.com

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• As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Crazy, Ducks, Interesting

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• This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world.

  Lukas Haas

  Thinking, Play, Careers

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

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• Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

  Mick Jagger

  President, Want, United States

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• The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Circus, Twenties

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• My sensitivity level is high, but I think that's one of my assets as an actor.

  John Turturro

  Thinking, Levels, Assets

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• People sometimes forget how important #‎ Broadway is as a place for young actors to grow.

  Hunter Parrish

  People, Important, Broadway

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Trust...trust your fellow actors to support you; trust them to come through if you lay something heavy on them; trust yourself.

  Del Close

  Support You, Trust Yourself, Heavy

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• For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.

  Robert Bresson

  Real, Order, Sound

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

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• When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a state we call inspiration.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Moving, Inspiration, Execution

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “An Actor Prepares”, p.268, A&C Black

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• Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.

  Anthony Anderson

  Hockey, Thinking, Rapper

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

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