Actors Quotes - Page 19

• When I was a waiter I was fired twice from the same restaurant. I guess I was that good of an actor but that bad of a waiter.

  Nathan Fillion

  Restaurants, Waiter

  "Roundtable With Seven Stars Who Had an Emmy-Worthy Year". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.

  Bela Lugosi

  Ambition, Character, Roles

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

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• A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

  Tom Stoppard

  Movie, Crush, Cameras

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• Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Heart, Character, Fire

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

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• As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Crazy, Ducks, Interesting

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• This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world.

  Lukas Haas

  Thinking, Play, Careers

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

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• The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people: people who can't read a note of music, people who have incredible classical skills, blues and jazz musicians, pop artists, visual artists, dancers and actors. Learn from people who are creative in a different way to you and you'll keep evolving.

  Katie Noonan

  Art, Skills, People

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• Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

  Mick Jagger

  President, Want, United States

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• The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Circus, Twenties

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• My sensitivity level is high, but I think that's one of my assets as an actor.

  John Turturro

  Thinking, Levels, Assets

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• People sometimes forget how important #‎ Broadway is as a place for young actors to grow.

  Hunter Parrish

  People, Important, Broadway

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

  Maggie Smith

  Want, Emotion, Maggie

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• I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Art, Hero, Acting

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• Trust...trust your fellow actors to support you; trust them to come through if you lay something heavy on them; trust yourself.

  Del Close

  Support You, Trust Yourself, Heavy

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• For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.

  Robert Bresson

  Real, Order, Sound

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

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• All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).

  Augusto Boal

  Spectators, Humans, Human Beings

  Augusto Boal (2005). “Games for Actors and Non-Actors”, p.15, Routledge

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• When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a state we call inspiration.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Moving, Inspiration, Execution

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “An Actor Prepares”, p.268, A&C Black

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• Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.

  Anthony Anderson

  Hockey, Thinking, Rapper

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

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• Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

  Val Guest

  Writing, Making Money, Enough

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• The better the actor, the more stupid he is.

  Truman Capote

  Stupid, Stupidity

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• You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

  Ron Perlman

  Childhood, Fatherhood, Tees

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• A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point to really engage the actors and really make it feel like a safe place for them to explore whatever it is they want to explore in whatever scene with their character.

  Will Estes

  Character, Thinking, Special

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• Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.

  Jeffrey Jones

  Thinking, Doctors, Connections

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• Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Nice, Visibility, Kind

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• Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.

  Yahoo Serious

  Movie, Voice, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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