Actors Quotes - Page 36

• As an actor there are no drawbacks.

  John Malkovich

  Drawbacks

  "John Malkovich Interviewed - BEOWULF". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 14, 2007.

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• When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Character, Giving, Character Actors

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

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• What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Giving, Promise, Directors

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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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• Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  People, Needs, Display

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• I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

  John Malkovich

  Theater, Supposed To Be

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• Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.

  John Malkovich

  Movie, Pitfalls, Done

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2010.

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• A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

  H. L. Mencken

  Doctors, Political, Tin

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• I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.

  Barbara Hershey

  Character, Thinking, People

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• I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.

  Rock Hudson

  Giving, Interviews, Helping

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• I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Real, Simple, Mythology

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• Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

  Alec Guinness

  Play, Lucky, Roles

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

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• I'm no actor. And I have sixty-four pictures to prove it.

  Victor Mature

  Acting, Four, Prove It

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• I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Children, Believe, Feelings

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• What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Eye, Looks, Way

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• I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

  Sean William Scott

  Singers, Whole

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• I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• Most actors feel only one way. We're just grateful to have a job.

  Sean William Scott

  Jobs, Grateful, Way

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• When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor.

  Tom Ford

  Kids, Eternal Sunshine, Guidance Counselor

  Interview with Jessica Hundley, www.askmen.com. December 11, 2009.

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• You know, actors are fans, too. And talent is very attractive to me.

  Kevin Kline

  Fans, Talent, Attractive

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• I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

  Kevin Bacon

  Character, I Can, Loses

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• The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

  Gerard Depardieu

  Men, Directors, Stories

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

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• When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.

  John Larroquette

  Insecure, People, Degrees

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Thinking, Two, Together

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• I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.

  Christian Bale

  Artist, Musician, Too Much

  "New Again: Christian Bale". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 17, 2012.

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