Actors Quotes - Page 13

• Acting doesn't have anything to do with listening to the words. We never really listen, in general conversation, to what the other person is saying. We listen to what they mean. And what they mean is often quite apart from the words. When you see a scene between two actors that goes really well you can be sure they're not listening to each other - they're feeling what the other person is trying to get at. Know what I mean?

  Jack Lemmon

  Mean, Two, Feelings

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• I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

  Richard Gere

  Mean, Thinking, Can Do

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• As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Believe, Book, Character

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• Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.

  Christine Lahti

  Challenges, Faces, Actresses

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• There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

  Tim Robbins

  Dumb, Bakers, Politician

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• I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

  Tim Robbins

  Research, Enough, Method

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• I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

  Wentworth Miller

  White, Trying, Males

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• You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

  Alec Baldwin

  Change, Years, Age

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• Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.

  Debi Mazar

  New York, Great Things, Typecasting

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• So many actors wear wigs nowadays. Besides, if someone is hiring me because of how I wear my hair, I don't want to work with them anyway.

  Maria Bello

  Hair, Wigs, Want

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• With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.

  Tina Yothers

  Business, Thinking, People

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• Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

  Sean Young

  Movie, People, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.

  Ray Walston

  Movie, Kids, New Orleans

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• When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors.

  James MacArthur

  Years, Crafts, Care

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• Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

  Richard Foreman

  Ukulele, Theater, Modus Operandi

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• Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.

  Richard Widmark

  Two, Numbers, Quitting

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• Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

  John Major

  Forever, Comic, Remembered

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• An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

  Jean Kerr

  Phones, Numbers, Long

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

  Glenn Close

  Funny, Humorous, Acting

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

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• Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

  Maxim Gorky

  Needs, Genius, Talent

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• As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.

  Jeremy Northam

  Play, Roles, Position

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• As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

  Carla Gugino

  Naked, Revealing

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

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• About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

  Ted Levine

  People, Laughing, Done

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• I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

  Matthew Lewis

  Thinking, Always Trying, Always Learning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

  Peter Billingsley

  Drama, Commitment, Thinking

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