Young Actors Quotes - Page 2

• As a young actor, there's a very small group of kids, just a handful. As you get older, all of a sudden, there's a bunch of guys your age that work. It's a very different experience when you used to be on the short list because you were young and there's only so many kids that can do the work and then all of a sudden you're in your twenties and thirties and there's a whole bunch of guys that can do your work.

  Ricky Schroder

  Kids, Different Experiences, Guy

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I wanted to learn a little bit about acting, not because I thought I'd find a star vehicle and set the world on fire, but I thought the discipline of it would be good for me. I met a good coach, and I joined her class - with a lot of hungry young actors who really didn't acre if I was a rock 'n' roll singer or not. I started to learn to get a focus, without having to jump up and down every few seconds.

  Iggy Pop

  Stars, Class, Fire

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• You won't find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.

  Clive Owen

  Actors, Treats, Young

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time about that, which I think is the wrong way to teach a young actor. They just made me really, really self-conscious about everything I did, which is the opposite of what you need to be when you're filming.

  Iwan Rheon

  Hard Times, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I try to do the same thing when I'm with young actors who are new and unsure. I try to do the same thing for them that I saw Laurence [Fishburne] and Angela [Dasset]do for all of us on Boyz n the Hood.

  Nia Long

  Trying, Actors, Saws

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid.

  Meryl Streep

  Stupid, College, Actors

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• I feel like a lot of the young actors that are just coming up are really good. I think directors are directing better.

  William H. Macy

  Thinking, Directors, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was certainly a child of the '60s, and I came out of that era, and as a young actor, I got cast as a lot of counterculture hippie types.

  Rob Reiner

  Children, Hippie, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The movie is so fun. I've done period pieces before but nothing with this twist. And the movie is just full of such wonderful people, such young actors - people like Matt Smith that I've been friends with for a while.

  Douglas Booth

  Fun, People, Twists

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Every day, every scene, you were like, "My god. I'm doing a scene with Brian Cox today and then I'm onto a scene with Stephen Rea." For us young actors, I think we were all very, very star-struck and impressed by the caliber of everyone who came out.

  James Norton

  Stars, Thinking, Actors

  "The Russian Prince". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.

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• If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall.

  Emma Thompson

  Fall, Artist, Challenges

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• When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a business, it’s called the film business for a reason, there’s money involved ... But on the flip side, now I do not let the business side of it rule either. It’s a balance.

  James Franco

  Artist, Balance, Actors

  "A Minute With: James Franco on villains and being James Franco". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. November 27, 2013.

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• I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot.

  Topher Grace

  Stars, Practice, Actors

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• If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.

  Wallace Shawn

  Reality, Giving, Advice

  "Wallace Shawn juggles acting jobs and play writing". Interview with Dany Margolies, www.reuters.com. February 1, 2011.

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• Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.

  Andy Serkis

  Years, Going Away, Needs

  "Hobbit Week: A Conversation With Andy Serkis, Creator of Gollum". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. December 10, 2012.

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• You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but its true.

  Tom Weston-Jones

  Thinking, People, Actors

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• I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.

  John Hughes

  I Like You, Actors, Half

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• Usually being a young actor, you've got to go through certain levels of hierarchy, going through bit parts and extra roles and then kind of progressing up the food chain and having the size of your roles grow in that sense.

  James Frecheville

  Progress, Roles, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what's great about them and what's not so great about them.

  Helen Mirren

  Generations, Actors, Next

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• A piece of advice I would give to young actors - hang on to your family, and hang on to your reality - and hang on to your "real". Because you're going into the land of make believe.

  Lorna Luft

  Real, Believe, Land

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.

  Robert Redford

  Art, New York, Years

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• When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

  Felicity Jones

  Actors, Pressure, Young

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.

  Miranda Otto

  Two, Serious, Actors

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• It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.

  Ron Howard

  Dream, Destiny, Leader

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

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• It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.

  Fred Savage

  Children, Cameras, Groups

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

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