Actors Quotes - Page 16

• Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'

  Michael Shurtleff

  Scene, Should, Asks

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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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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• 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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• When I was a waiter I was fired twice from the same restaurant. I guess I was that good of an actor but that bad of a waiter.

  Nathan Fillion

  Restaurants, Waiter

  "Roundtable With Seven Stars Who Had an Emmy-Worthy Year". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.

  Bela Lugosi

  Ambition, Character, Roles

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.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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• The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people: people who can't read a note of music, people who have incredible classical skills, blues and jazz musicians, pop artists, visual artists, dancers and actors. Learn from people who are creative in a different way to you and you'll keep evolving.

  Katie Noonan

  Art, Skills, People

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

  Truman Capote

  Stupid, Stupidity

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• You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

  Ron Perlman

  Childhood, Fatherhood, Tees

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• Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Nice, Visibility, Kind

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• I’ve broken a cardinal rule of art, music, and career paths: actors are supposed to act, and musicians are supposed to music. That’s how it works. You don’t buy fish from a dentist, or ask a plumber for financial advice, so why listen to an actor’s music?

  Hugh Jackman

  Art, Careers, Broken

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• I became an actor so I can show you characters and never have to show you me.

  Margot Robbie

  Character, Shows, I Can

  Interview with Christian Han, www.violetgrey.com. 2014.

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• Actors always want to be musicians,
  and musicians want to be actors

  Marilyn Manson

  Musician, Want

  "This much I know: Marilyn Manson". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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• I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Musician

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• The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Worst Enemy, Body, Enemy

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• Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

  Larry Merchant

  Wisdom, Eye, Guy

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• I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

  Darren Aronofsky

  Movie, Narrative, Filmmaking

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• I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

  Sissy Spacek

  People, Details, Littles

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• The big difference I think between tv and stage is definitely the immediate buzz that you get. And that's not just as an actor, as an audience member you're getting the chance to have this kind of two-way process where the actors and the audience are experiencing the same thing. With tv you often have to wait months and months down the line to actually get the pay-off. Whereas with theatre it's a very immediate thing.

  Colin Morgan

  Thinking, Two, Differences

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• Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.

  Magda Gerber

  Children, Play, Directors

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