Actors Quotes - Page 11

• Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

  George Burns

  Funny, Success, Fake People

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• Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

  W. C. Fields

  Husband, Devil, Acting

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• If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Acting, Half

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• No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

  James Earl Jones

  Entitlement, Entitlement Programs

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  People, Theatre, Acting

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• Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

  Bela Lugosi

  States, Capitalist, Managers

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• You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

  Stella Adler

  Ideas, Choices, Feelings

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.65, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Funny, Sarcastic, Acting

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• Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

  Patty Duke

  Creative, Risk, Lines

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

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• Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.

  Clifton Davis

  Real, Men, Guy

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• You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Character, Space, Surfing

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

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• I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

  Jeremy Irons

  Character, Thinking, Swag

  Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.

  Uwe Boll

  Two, Hollywood, Stills

  "Boll, Uwe (Bloodrayne)". Interview with Jon Condit, www.dreadcentral.com. January 1, 2006.

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• If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Stupid, Apathy

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.223

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• I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

  Bette Davis

  Regret, Apology, Enemy

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.

  David Carradine

  Training, Kind, Audience

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• I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

  Gene Hackman

  Stars, Play, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Fun, Real, Interesting

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

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• What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

  Joyce Cary

  Powerful, Imagination, Stage

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.79, New Directions Publishing

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• One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends.

  Moss Hart

  Careers, Advice, Danger

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Humor, Comedian, Imitation

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• The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Cutting, Play, Long

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• When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

  Julia Barr

  Wells, Behinds, Written

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• I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A.

  Jerry Orbach

  New York, Thinking, Choices

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• I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

  Jillian Bach

  Thinking, Relief

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