Actors Quotes - Page 35

• As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

  Glenn Close

  Writing, Lines, Bottom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The fact is, as actors, everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to give people as wide a range of human behavior with some sense of understanding of that behavior or some clue to it.

  Grace Zabriskie

  People, Giving, Understanding

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• I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

  Sydney Pollack

  Believe, Lucky, Able

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• For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.

  Steve Kazee

  Song, Passion, Writing

  "THE LEADING MEN: Steve Kazee, the Traveling Heart of Broadway's Once". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. March 17, 2012.

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• I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.

  Burgess Meredith

  Character, Men, Born

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

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• I mean one of the weird things about TV and one of the things that some actors don't like but I kind of dig is that you never know where you're headed, I mean you never know what the writer might think of next.

  Mary McCormack

  Mean, Thinking, Might

  "Mary McCormack Talks In Plain Sight". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 20, 2009.

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• I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

  Kajol

  Television, Film, Refreshing

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• I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want things to be done ASAP. If I turn director, I might end up killing my actors.

  Shilpa Shetty

  Thinking, Directors, Done

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• Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Elements, Casting, Film

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• Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.

  Richard E. Grant

  Thinking, Cases

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• I've been a very lucky actor.

  Bob Newhart

  Lucky, Comedy

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• The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.

  Bob Newhart

  Play, Discipline, Fascination

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• When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Real, Museums, Trying

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

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• If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Character, Magic, Collaboration

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

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• For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life's end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.

  Bhartrhari

  Boys, Men, Wrinkles

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• I - you know, I'm not an actor.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Knows

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• I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

  Zoe Wanamaker

  Trying, Holding On, Rigour

  "Shakespeare and me: Zoe Wanamaker". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2012.

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• When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

  Rick Moranis

  Movie, Thinking, Say Anything

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• I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

  Billy Crystal

  Film Directing, Nyu, Comedian

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

  Penelope Keith

  People, Giving, Insight

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• I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.

  Gene Hackman

  Jobs, New York, Marine

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• Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor

  Rex Harrison

  Emotional, Acting, Cry

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• I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.

  Christopher Parker

  Kids, Doctors, Young

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• Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

  John Simm

  Writing, Bird, Want

  "John Simm: this much I know" by Olly Richards", www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Acting, Mystery, Knows

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

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