Actors Quotes - Page 16

• Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

  Arthur Miller

  Reading, Simple, Honest

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• When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

  Rod Taylor

  Jobs, Firsts, Controversial

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• The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Home, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.23, 谷月社

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• I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.

  Orlando Bloom

  Drama, School, Years

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• Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

  Dougray Scott

  Feelings, Covering, Looks

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• It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

  Tony Curtis

  Moving, Character, Play

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• So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

  Faye Dunaway

  Mean, People, Nasty

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• It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult for a woman if she's lesbian. It`s very distressing to me that that should be the case. The film industry is very old fashioned in California.

  Ian Mckellen

  Careers, California, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.

  Marguerite Duras

  Opposites, Wife, Infidelity

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• Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Art, Play, Numbers

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building A Character”, p.272, Routledge

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• I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.

  Conrad Veidt

  Stupid, Order, Medicine

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• I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.

  Rip Torn

  Friends, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.

  Bernie Mac

  Pain, Might, Ass

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• I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

  Barbara Hershey

  Publicity, Film, Knows

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• The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

  Steven Berkoff

  Team, Soldier, Theater

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• Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.

  Charles S. Dutton

  New York, Juan, Omar

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• The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to. It is thus, like poetry and religion, a device for gladdening the heart with what is palpably not true.

  H. L. Mencken

  Heart, Thinking, Acting

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• It is only the untalented director who imagines him or herself in every part, wants his or her own thoughts and emotions portrayed; it is only the untalented who make their own limitations those of the actors as well.

  Liv Ullmann

  Art, Directors, Want

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• Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. .... It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause from the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Talking, Class

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.174, Knopf

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• Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Kids, Naughty, People

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• I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They're still very much the same kids that I met many years ago. They've grown up and they are funny and wicked and naughty and bright, and I think as actors their work is just getting better and better. They've blossomed.

  David Heyman

  Kids, Naughty, Thinking

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• But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Meaningful, Country, Community

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• I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don't let life in, we don't take the journey.

  Swoosie Kurtz

  Movie, Heartbroken, Pain

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• If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors.

  John Frankenheimer

  Mistake, Aspect, Casts

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• I nearly broke out laughing when the wrteched soothsayer warned Caesar: "Beware the Ides of April." I thought it a miracle (and a relief) that no one in the udience had snickered or yelled out a correction. How could such an error be made by an actor? Had my ears deceived me?

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Errors, Laughing, Miracle

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