Actors Quotes - Page 22

• The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Roles, Satisfaction, Surprise

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• Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Hate, Mistake, Film

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• Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Kids, Names, Forgotten

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• I did an action series back in '97, and did very intense training; weapons, knives, hand-to-hand combat. The more an actor trains in that way, the more we can do on screen and the better it looks. Nowadays, they want the actors to do as much as possible and stunt doubles are primarily used for the dangerous things that aren't covered by insurance.

  Melinda Clarke

  Intense Training, Hands, Knives

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• I realize I have a lot of amazing opportunities, but I don't know how you can play a human being going through real human experiences without being able to walk down the street. If you can't live a real life, how do you play a real person? It always confuses me when actors work back-to-back-to-back with no break. If you live your life on a film set, how the hell can you relate to real people? You don't know what its like to not have people fussing over you all day, and that's not life - that's silly movies. I will always want to take breaks and I wouldn't be OK with losing that.

  Emma Stone

  Real, Silly, Opportunity

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

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• I have always weirdly seen myself as more of a character actor. I have never been suave. I could never see myself playing James Bond. I suppose I could fake it, but I am certainly not James Bond in real life.

  James Marsden

  Real, Character, Fake

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• Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.

  Aleksa Palladino

  Directors, Safe, Crew

  "Exitmusic’s Passage Is No Secret". Interview with Amanda Duberman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2012.

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• I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

  Mireille Enos

  Roles, Requirements, Certain

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• I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Thinking, Aliens, Has Beens

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

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• A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

  Peter Mullan

  Directors, Kind, Fallacy

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• There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer', that director's going to hate your guts. Particularly if it's a good idea.

  Peter Mullan

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

  2003 In a question and answer session at the National Film Theatre, London, 4 Nov.

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• I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.

  Brent Spiner

  Thinking, Unemployment, Guilds

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• I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

  Stanley Tucci

  Firsts

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• When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.

  Danny Masterson

  Boss, Sometimes, Easier

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• When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.

  David Suchet

  Philosophy, Character, Voice

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• I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.

  David Suchet

  People, Able, Given

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

  David Suchet

  Play

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For an actor to be working at all is a kind of miracle, because most actors aren't. So it's just silly for a working actor to say, 'Oh, I don't care if anybody knows I'm gay' especially if you're a leading man. Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out.

  Richard Chamberlain

  Silly, Gay, Men

  "Gay actors say coming out affects roles they get" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

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• For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.

  Michael Douglas

  Fun, Hate, Sharks

  FaceBook post by Michael Douglas from May 08, 2013

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• Learn your lines… plant your feet… look the other actor in the eye… say the words… mean them.

  James Cagney

  Mean, Eye, Feet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

  Joan Collins

  Actresses, Knows

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• I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.

  Michael Gambon

  People, Mind, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.

  Dax Shepard

  Successful, Funny Things, People

  "20 Questions: Dax Shepard". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. September 19, 2012.

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• You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

  Sally Field

  People, Knows

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• I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

  Rufus Sewell

  Thinking, Facts, I Can

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

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