Actors Quotes - Page 9

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

  Sean Penn

  People, Acting, My Favorite

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• Actors are one family over the entire world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Family, World

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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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• Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

  Orson Welles

  Fake People, Believe, Heart

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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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• Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Competition, Healthy, Acting

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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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• 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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• 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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• I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

  Thornton Wilder

  Art, Theatre, Acting

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• Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

  Susannah York

  Love, Writing, Character

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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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• Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.

  Thayer David

  Jobs, Reason, Hours

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• Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Emotional, Abuse

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.237, Transaction Publishers

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• I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

  Harry Hamlin

  Character, Play, Directors

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• Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.

  James Spader

  Believe, Love Is, Emotion

  Playboy, May 2005.

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• On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

  Aisha Tyler

  Principles, Shows, Boycott

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• Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him

  Daphne Zuniga

  Confidence, Real, College

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• I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

  William Hurt

  Artist, Want, Narcissist

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

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• There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

  Dennis Farina

  School, Acting, Whole

  "Guy's Guys: A Chat With Snatch Stars Jason Statham And Dennis Farina". Interview With Smriti Mundhra, www.ign.com. January 18, 2001.

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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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• Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

  Ellen Barkin

  Art, Keeping Secrets, Giving

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• A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Storyteller

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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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• The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.

  Joan Chen

  Differences, Expectations, Born

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

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