Actors Quotes - Page 15

• Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Soul, Tears

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

  Richard Donner

  Movie, Hurt, Couple

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• I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Thinking, Theatre, Directors

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

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• The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Being Yourself, Power, Joy

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• Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

  Warren Beatty

  Motivational, Children, Narcissistic

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• I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Encouragement, Character, Creating

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• As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Theatre

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 23

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• They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

  William Hazlitt

  Dream, Hypocrite, Acting

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.218

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• Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dog, Laughter, Player

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 404 (1775)

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• I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

  Peter Shaffer

  Thinking, Facts, Fantasy

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• I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Brother, Artist, Two

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• I've worked on shows where the lead actor doesn't know their lines, doesn't care, and it affects everybody - the crew, the director, the other actors. It's definitely a responsibility.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Responsibility, Directors, Care

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• I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.

  Theodore Bikel

  Proud

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• When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk, the rest of the time, I try to stay in that character and see the world the way that character would It's almost like method acting in a way — keeping the character close the way the actor keeps a script close and always tries to be in character.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Writing, Character, Trying

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• The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.

  Paul Wesley

  Culture, Things I Love, Ability

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• Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor.

  Alfie Allen

  Interesting, Emotion, Contrast

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

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• What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.

  Alfie Allen

  People, Want, Noticing

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

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• The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

  Yash Chopra

  Secret, Food Love, Great Actors

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• Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.

  Amy Weber

  Yesterday, Giving, Starting Out

  "Amy Weber...bikini babe". AskMen interview, www.askmen.com.

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• In contrast to the inorganic thereness of lifeless matter, living beings are not mere appearances. To be alive means to be possessed by an urge toward self-display which answers the fact of one’s own appearingness. Living things make their appearance like actors on a stage set for them.

  Hannah

  Mean, Self, Answers

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• An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

  Alec Guinness

  Children, Men, Vanity

  Alec Guinness (1986). “Blessings in Disguise”, New York : Knopf

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• You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Movie, Editing, Choices

  "Toronto International Film Festival 2002: An interview with Frederick Wiseman, director of The Last Letter". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. October 2, 2002.

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• If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.

  Michael Caine

  Jobs, Ambition, Golf

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• As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.

  Rita Webb

  Writing, Play, Needs

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• Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the nature of the human psyche. Yes, maybe. But basically we just want to put on a frock and dance.

  Colin Firth

  Queens, People, Want

  "Firth: 'All Actors Are Drag Queens'" by wenn.com, July 21, 2008.

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