Actors Quotes - Page 40

• Spielberg gave us three takes before saying anything to us. Since then, I do that, three takes, to let the actors find their rhythm.

  Edward Burns

  Three, Rhythm

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• The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.

  Edward Burns

  Directors, Way, Film

  Interview with Maya Singer, www.ign.com. March 9, 2001.

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• I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.

  Jamie Bell

  Thinking, Right Now, Knows

  "This time it's serious" by Emma Brockers, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2007.

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• I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

  Jamie Bell

  Movie, Real, Thinking

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• We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

  Jillian Bach

  Television, Film, Theater

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• My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

  Jonathan Brandis

  Being Me, Mediocre, Involved

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I want to be remembered as an actor who put in some good work in the beginning of his career, even better work at the end of his career and slowly, successfully made the transition into writing and directing.

  Jonathan Brandis

  Writing, Careers, Transition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Thinking, Doe, Routine

  Interview with Ruth Hilton, www.maxim.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.

  Lance Bass

  Musician, Might, Incredibles

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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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• My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

  Laura Benanti

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Differences, Acting, Pork

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• Taxi Driver' is a movie that changed my life and made me a serious actor. Scorsese and De Niro. I give credit for anything that I've ever done as an actor.

  Michael Biehn

  Giving, Serious, Credit

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• As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?

  Nicholas Brendon

  Morning, Fun, Hair

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• I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.

  Rick Baker

  Makeup, Magic, Said

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• Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much.

  Roberto Benigni

  Comedian, Proud, Clown

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• We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

  Tom Baker

  Voice, Stories, Knows

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• Actors don't have real value.

  Uwe Boll

  Real, Real Value, Values

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• As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

  Yasmine Bleeth

  Focus, Attention, Used

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• I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.

  Zach Braff

  People, Creative, Frustrated

  "Marathon Man: Zach Braff". Interview with Jennifer Campbell, www.askmen.com.

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• I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.

  Adelaide Clemens

  Children, Military, Common

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Editing, Crafts, Used

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• Kids kill a show! It's, like, a fun concept when the character is pregnant, but then if a show runs for a while, I'm sorry, but it gets annoying when it starts to talk. You get a child actor in there, and unless that child actor is freakin' awesome, it's going to be annoying.

  Eliza Coupe

  Running, Children, Sorry

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

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• Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Teeth, Want, Materials

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

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• It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Sacred, Personal Life

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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