Actors Quotes - Page 37

• For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors.

  David Cronenberg

  Hurt, Personality, Guy

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• I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.

  D. W. Griffith

  People, Boards, Looks

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• The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

  Tom Cruise

  Giving, Film, Responsible

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• You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.

  Anthony Anderson

  Jobs, Opportunity, Rapper

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

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• I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Thinking, Years, Half

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 18, 2008.

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• I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.

  Elle Macpherson

  Directors, Roles, Looks

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• On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

  Gary Oldman

  Thinking, Directors, Example

  "Gary Oldman: 'I still don't have a publicist'" by Kate Goodacre, www.digitalspy.com. September 2, 2011.

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• People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

  Gary Oldman

  People, Different, Want

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• If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Teacher, Teaching, Class

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• Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name.

  Michael Keaton

  Names, Two, Yeah

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.

  Dylan McDermott

  Jobs, Long, People

  "'The Campaign's' Dylan McDermott Reveals How He Broke the Ice His First Day on Set" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 10, 2012.

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• I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.

  Dylan McDermott

  Running, Mean, Thinking

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• The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Quality, Silliness

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• Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

  Kenneth Branagh

  People, Important, Directors

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• As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Character, Hair, Color

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• If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.

  Kurt Russell

  Thinking, Want, Pay

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• Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

  James Spader

  Two, Directors, Different

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• You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen.

  James Spader

  Years, Two, Facts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Black, Peers, Actresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Dancer, World, Olympics

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• When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.

  Tim Roth

  Running, Hurt, Kids

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• There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

  Claire Danes

  People, Curiosity, Uncomfortable

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• I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

  Elia Kazan

  Class, Firsts, First Class

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• I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

  Elia Kazan

  Thinking, Privilege, Intense

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• You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

  Elia Kazan

  Self Worth, Ideas, Fragile

  Elia Kazan, Jeff Young (1999). “Kazan: the master director discusses his films : interviews with Elia Kazan”, Newmarket Pr

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