Actors Quotes - Page 6

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

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

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• David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

  William Hurt

  Artist, Knows

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. September 18, 2005.

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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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• 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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• It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

  Cate Blanchett

  Motivation, Moving, Careers

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• They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Glasses, Hands

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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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• I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

  Rachel Weisz

  Thinking, Drawing, Choices

  "Weisz Girl". www.mirror.co.uk. March 18, 2005.

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• I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

  Famke Janssen

  Disappointment, People, Expectations

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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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• A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.

  Gina Gershon

  Struggle, Musician, Want

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

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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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• Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.

  Steve Coogan

  Fun, Integrity, Film

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

  Gene Hackman

  Numbers, Dysfunctional Family, Good Actors

  "Gene Hackman, Hollywood's Every Angry Man" by David Edelstein, www.nytimes.com. December 16, 2001.

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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 think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

  Samantha Bee

  Thinking, Doe, Politician

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• I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

  Kate Smith

  Stage

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• Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Team, Dimes, Dozen

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. March 31, 2001.

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• There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

  Nicolas Cage

  Acting, Lines, Method

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Editors, Directors, Film

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• I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thinking, Important, Trying

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