Actors Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Real, Imagination, Circumstances

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

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• Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.

  Derek Jacobi

  Growing Up, Thinking, Lucky

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• I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

  Derek Jacobi

  Business, Thinking, Feet

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• I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

  Keanu Reeves

  Movie, Thinking, Quality

  "Actor Keanu Reeves". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 22, 2012.

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• I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

  Keanu Reeves

  Cameras, Stories, Curious

  "Interview: Keanu Reeves Talks ‘Man Of Tai Chi’ ’47 Ronin’" by Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. October 31, 2013.

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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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• A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

  David Suchet

  Successful, Swindlers, Salesman

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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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• A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

  Peter Mullan

  Directors, Useless, Scripts

  Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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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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• In terms of American Horror Story and Nashville, what attracted me to those, and Friday Night Lights, for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn't seen before. As an actor, that's exciting.

  Connie Britton

  Friday, Night, Light

  "Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere Talk NASHVILLE, Doing Their Own Singing, Mastering the Archetypes of Southern Women and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 1, 2012.

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• I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.

  Stanley Tucci

  Kids, Wanted

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• The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

  Christina Ricci

  Movie, Successful, May

  "Christina Ricci: The One and Only". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. May 1, 2001.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I don't want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven't played than I care if my neck looks like someone's bedroom curtains.

  Sally Field

  Real, Opportunity, Play

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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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• As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.

  Hugo Weaving

  Different, Film

  "Hugo Weaving Talks THE HOBBIT, TRANSFORMERS, and Red Skull; Says They Haven’t Filmed the Final HOBBIT Battle Yet" by Christina Radish, collider.com. October 14, 2012.

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• When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.

  Ruth Negga

  Way, Directors, Sometimes

  "Ruth Negga: 'I'm not in any rush to get anywhere'" by Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2012.

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• I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Thinking, Directors, Stills

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• If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

  Andrew Scott

  Hot, Stories, Want

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Starting Over, Experts, Starting

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