Actors Quotes - Page 20

• I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

  Christine Lahti

  Two, Important, Rehearsal

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• I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Play, Guy, Age

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• I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Character, Thinking, Able

  "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

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• I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy.

  Klaus Kinski

  Laughter, Grief, Joy

  Klaus Kinski (1997). “Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski”, Penguin Books

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• If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world.

  Josh Hartnett

  Writing, Thinking, Light

  "Hart throb" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2002.

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• A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.

  Christian Bale

  Done, Speak, Authority

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

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• Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ambition, Mean, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.45, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Jobs, Hardest Job, Scared

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• I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'

  Melissa McCarthy

  School, Textiles, Costumes

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• I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.

  Claire Danes

  Growing Up, Understanding, Sound

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• I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

  Sean Penn

  Directors, Directing Movies, I Can

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• I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.

  Tom Hardy

  Movie, Dog, Xbox

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• Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Teacher, Astronaut

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• The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.

  Emile Hirsch

  Thinking, Kind, Projects

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• It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.

  Julianna Margulies

  People, Working It, Things To Do

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• I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to wake up with him. And I have the most amazing job, with writing that any actor would love and costars who I can't wait to see on Monday mornings. And I love coming home to my husband.

  Julianna Margulies

  Baby, Morning, Monday

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• I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

  Judi Dench

  Lucky, Actresses, Sometimes

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• I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

  Jane Birkin

  Teeth, Lucky, Thumbs

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• As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Responsibility, Team America, Television

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• I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.

  Amanda Bynes

  Cool Person, Normal, Prove

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• I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

  Jean Reno

  Lying, Men, Giving

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• Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.

  James McAvoy

  Years, Giving, Next Year

  "The real McAvoy" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

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• I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.

  Joel McCrea

  Regret, Should Have, Harder

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

  Rose McGowan

  Passion, Trying, My Passion

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• I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

  Kyle Chandler

  Have Faith, Enough

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

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