Actors Quotes - Page 20

• I’ve broken a cardinal rule of art, music, and career paths: actors are supposed to act, and musicians are supposed to music. That’s how it works. You don’t buy fish from a dentist, or ask a plumber for financial advice, so why listen to an actor’s music?

  Hugh Jackman

  Art, Careers, Broken

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• I find that’s one of the great things about acting-you have the opportunity to stand in somebody else’s shoes. Each character faces a dilemma in her life, and as an actor you’re able to step into that character’s skin, look through her eyes. You leave transformed, a different person, because once you live a little bit of someone’s life, it changes you.

  Sally Field

  Character, Eye, Opportunity

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• The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.

  Bruce Lee

  Accomplishment, Action

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.31, Tuttle Publishing

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• I became an actor so I can show you characters and never have to show you me.

  Margot Robbie

  Character, Shows, I Can

  Interview with Christian Han, www.violetgrey.com. 2014.

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• Actors always want to be musicians,
  and musicians want to be actors

  Marilyn Manson

  Musician, Want

  "This much I know: Marilyn Manson". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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• I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Musician

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• The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Worst Enemy, Body, Enemy

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• Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Understanding, World

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• The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Imagination, Use, Answers

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• Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ambition, Mean, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.45, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

  Larry Merchant

  Wisdom, Eye, Guy

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• I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

  Darren Aronofsky

  Movie, Narrative, Filmmaking

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• Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.

  will.i.am

  Athlete, People, Musician

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• I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

  Sissy Spacek

  People, Details, Littles

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• The big difference I think between tv and stage is definitely the immediate buzz that you get. And that's not just as an actor, as an audience member you're getting the chance to have this kind of two-way process where the actors and the audience are experiencing the same thing. With tv you often have to wait months and months down the line to actually get the pay-off. Whereas with theatre it's a very immediate thing.

  Colin Morgan

  Thinking, Two, Differences

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• The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Character, Fighting, Needs

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'

  Michael Shurtleff

  Scene, Should, Asks

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.

  Magda Gerber

  Children, Play, Directors

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• I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance.

  Christopher Doyle

  Thinking, Cameras, Movement

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

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• I'm not an actor - and I've got 64 films to prove it!

  Victor Mature

  Film, Prove It, Prove

  "Trivia/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically

  Marlene Dietrich

  Fall, Kids, Artist

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• I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

  Dick Van Patten

  Children, Radio, Left

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• There are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.

  Phoebe Cates

  Two, Film, Made

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• I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

  Character, Get Better, Want

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

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• First day working with Tom Hiddleston. He is my ideal as an actor: brilliant, reliable, human, decent, open, and friendly. He charmed my daughter as he has charmed me. I think my kid charmed him, too. This is a fellow I could joyfully spend the rest of my career working with. He's that good and that generous.

  Jim Beaver

  Daughter, Kids, Thinking

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