Actors Quotes - Page 5

• Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

  Jude Law

  Inspiration, Long, Film

  "Film stars step back on stage". www.cnn.com. January 11, 2001.

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• Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

  William H. Macy

  Preparation, Ninety, Percent

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• Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

  Helen Mirren

  Vagabonds, Rogues, Ought

  "Calendar girl" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.

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• If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character

  William Hurt

  Character, Lucky, Chance

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• I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Fun, Men, People

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• I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

  Orlando Bloom

  Thinking, Trying, Cracks

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• Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

  Gene Siskel

  Lunch, Interesting, Documentaries

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• One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Hurt, Character, Careers

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• While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Romance, Acting

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

  Eric Bogosian

  Bricks And Mortar, House, Directors

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• Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

  Alyssa Milano

  Insecure, Careers, People

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• I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

  Joe Mantegna

  Character, Kind, All Kinds

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• I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

  Josh Lucas

  Thinking, Masters, Trade

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• Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.

  Denzel Washington

  Children, Wonderful, Knows

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• Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and history generally, and should be centered on acting in plays rather than just exercises, improvisations, monologues, or even scenes.

  Richard Hornby

  Exercise, Play, Training

  Richard Hornby (1992). “The End of Acting: A Radical View”, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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• Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously.

  Richard Hornby

  Theatre, Acting, Identity

  Richard Hornby (1986). “Drama, Metadrama and Perception”, p.71, Associated University Presse

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• I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

  Elaine Dundy

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

  Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.130, New York Review of Books

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• Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

  Ajay Naidu

  Landscape, Able, Should

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• Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.

  John Berger

  Art, Nature, Drama

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.736, Vintage

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• The [Great] Actor is able to approach in himself a cosmic dread as large as life. He is able to go from his dread to a joy so sweet that it is without limit. Only then will the actor have direct access to the life that moves in him, which is as free as his breathing. And like his breathing, he doesn't cause it to happen. He doesn't contain it, and it doesn't contain him.

  Joseph Chaikin

  Sweet, Moving, Breathing

  Joseph Chaikin (1993). “The Presence of the Actor”, p.10, Theatre Communications Group

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• There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

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• Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.

  Jeff Bridges

  Pay, Publicity, Contracts

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• As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.

  Emily Watson

  Cameras, Rooms, Structure

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• Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

  Harry Warner

  Inspirational, Witty, Humorous

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

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• I went to school, majored in theatre, and said 'Mom, I have to choose my own destiny. I want to be an actor.' A couple of weeks after I graduated college I called my mother up and said 'Can I borrow $200?' and she said 'Why don't you act like you've got $200.'

  Arsenio Hall

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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