Actors Quotes - Page 8

• It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Goal, Famous Actor

  "Gavin DeGraw remembers NYC struggles, knows his place" by Carolyn E. Davis, www.mtv.com. March 25, 2005.

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• The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Character, Play

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1840). “The life and exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha: In four volumes”, p.27

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• It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth

  Elia Kazan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

  Elia Kazan (2011). “Elia Kazan: A Life”, p.485, Knopf

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• We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Acting, Want, Realizing

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• I think most actors like to be liked.

  Anjelica Huston

  Thinking

  "The Life Aquatic - Angelica Huston Q&A" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.

  Sam Worthington

  Love, Fall, Directors

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• I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

  Sam Mendes

  Trying, Different, Want

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• I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

  Jason Patric

  People, Directors, Use

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• Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavory.

  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

  Stars, Ideas, Acting

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

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• What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

  Alan Rickman

  Talking, Bored, God Knows

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• What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.

  Robert Wagner

  Guy, Arriving, Talent

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• Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think thats because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

  Brenda Blethyn

  Thinking, Theatre, World

  "I think I'm quite good at my job' by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2002.

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• A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Storyteller

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• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Time, Player

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.

  Peter Tork

  Routine, Saws, Tvs

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• Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

  Tim Robbins

  Real, Heart, People

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• I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

  Sean Penn

  People, Acting, My Favorite

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• The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Feelings, Acting, Joints

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building A Character”, p.320, Routledge

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• Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

  Thornton Wilder

  Play, Signatures, Directors

  The New York Mirror, July 13, 1956.

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• Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work. Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dark

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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• An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they must go looking for it. Plays are written about...the extraordinary, the unusual, the climaxes. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Drama, Play, Interesting

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• Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

  Glenda Jackson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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

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• A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, People, Acting

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

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• As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

  Richard Foreman

  Emotional, Over You, Trying

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• In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors

  Max von Sydow

  Country, Theatre, Television

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