Actors Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.

  Anthony Anderson

  Hockey, Thinking, Rapper

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

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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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• I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

  Iain Glen

  Feels

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

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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'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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• The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Imagination, Use, Answers

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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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• Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.

  will.i.am

  Athlete, People, Musician

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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 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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• 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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• Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically

  Marlene Dietrich

  Fall, Kids, Artist

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• There are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.

  Phoebe Cates

  Two, Film, Made

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• I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

  Character, Get Better, Want

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

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• A lot of the stuff you do as an actor - or I do, because I can't speak for everyone - is not always consciously thought out. A lot of the time, for me, it's actually just feeling stuff, and it happens all in the moment and your body reacts.

  Henry Cavill

  Feelings, Body, Stuff

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