Actors Quotes - Page 26

• You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don't have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn't matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won't have that one lucky moment.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Lucky, World, Matter

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• I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.

  Jesse L. Martin

  Shining, Humanity, Example

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

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• My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn - I was named after her - and Cary Grant. I just love old black and white movies and the stars in them. It must have been a great time to be in Hollywood.

  Katharine Isabelle

  Stars, Black And White, Dying

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• The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there.

  Deborah Mailman

  Opportunity, Different, Film And Television

  "Interview with Deborah Mailman – Star of The Sapphires". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. March 21, 2013.

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• Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

  Richard Gere

  Careers, Knows, Has Beens

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• I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.

  Sam Huntington

  Picks

  "Brandon Routh and Sam Huntington Exclusive Interview DYLAN DOG". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 27, 2011.

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• When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers films and westerns and stuff like that. Thats where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Brother, Kids, Parent

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• As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.

  Michelle Yeoh

  Blessed, Artist, Challenges

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to be a luvvie actor. It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.

  Robert Carlyle

  Long, Want, Accepting

  "To be and to pretend" by Alastair McKay, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2005.

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• But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.

  Ethan Suplee

  Movie, Confused, Thinking

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

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• There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

  Tina Yothers

  Time, Children, Struggle

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• Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.

  Audrey Meadows

  Men, Gdp, Roles

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• I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Games, Play

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• I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Ambition, Mirrors, Faces

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• When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Long, Lucky, Starting Out

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• There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Thinking, Years, People

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• My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

  Patrick Warburton

  Jobs, Character, Trying

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

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• I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

  Dorothy Stratten

  Character, Thinking, Actresses

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• I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

  Eddie Marsan

  Fashion, Stars, Thinking

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• I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.

  Richard Widmark

  Friends, Two, California

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• I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

  Randy Harrison

  Honesty, Thinking, Important

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• Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old.

  Keith David

  Years, Two Year Olds, Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

  Norman Jewison

  Character, Usa, Long

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• Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.

  Natalie Dormer

  Moving, Skills, Cold

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• There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Home, Thinking, People

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