Actors Quotes - Page 18

• I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

  Christian Bale

  Too Much, Politician, Kicks

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

  Truman Capote

  Stupid, Stupidity

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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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• I'm not a big star in Japan. I'm an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I cook at home. A star doesn't do that.

  Ken Watanabe

  Stars, Home, Japan

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

  Darren Aronofsky

  Movie, Narrative, Filmmaking

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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’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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• 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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• Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Understanding, World

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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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• The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Character, Fighting, Needs

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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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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