Actors Quotes - Page 21

• It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.

  Henry Cavill

  Judging, Different, Difficult

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• A lot of the stuff you do as an actor - or I do, because I can't speak for everyone - is not always consciously thought out. A lot of the time, for me, it's actually just feeling stuff, and it happens all in the moment and your body reacts.

  Henry Cavill

  Feelings, Body, Stuff

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• Regrets are something you can't really have as an actor, because ultimately you'll end up destroying yourself there's a lot of disappointment in this business.

  Henry Cavill

  Disappointment, Regret, Ends

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• I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.

  Diane Lane

  Movie, Mother, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

  Michael Shannon

  Successful, Thinking, Elephants

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• One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.

  Michael Shannon

  Sports, Children, Growing Up

  Interview with Paul Rudd, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 17, 2013.

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• I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

  Iain Glen

  Feels

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

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• As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

  Iain Glen

  Giving, Trying, Energy

  "Iain Glen: 'I've never been so wired'" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2010.

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• I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

  Iain Glen

  People, Awful, Not Sure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

  Kit Harington

  Animal, Tough, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• An actors most important responsibility is to know lines well.

  Harry Morgan

  Responsibility, Important, Lines

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• There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Years, Guilds, Screens

  "60 Seconds in Goot Heaven". www.indiewire.com. December 18, 2005.

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• When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Long, Lucky, Starting Out

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• Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

  Kevin Kline

  Creative, Feels, Being Trusted

  "Kevin Kline Talks DARLING COMPANION, Charlie Kaufman’s FRANK OR FRANCIS, and His Oscar Short with Mike Myers". Press conference, collider.com. April 19, 2012.

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• I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

  David Wenham

  Thinking, Directors, Wonderful

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

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• I don't consider myself a good actor at all. I just do what I want to do, and I'm just having fun doing it.

  Frankie Muniz

  Fun, Want, Having Fun

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• I became a dancer late and an actor late.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Dancer, Late

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• Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now.

  Julianne Moore

  Drama, Superhero, Stronger

  "Emmys 2012: Julianne Moore on Becoming Sarah Palin and Moving to TV Full Time". Interview with Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 21, 2012.

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• At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front; the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But even as a movie star, you can be outseated by a bigger star in any given year. It's kind of hilarious. You have to take it in stride.

  Julianne Moore

  Stars, Years, Tvs

  "Emmys 2012: Julianne Moore on Becoming Sarah Palin and Moving to TV Full Time". Interview with Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I think when you get on with the actors that you're working with, even if you do have really intimate scenes, as long as you get on well, and have a bit of a laugh while doing it, then it's fine.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Thinking, Long, Laughing

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• You know, I've kind of been lucky enough to always work with established actors or big names or people that are really popular or infamous for doing what they do and doing it well, I guess.

  Amber Heard

  Names, People, Lucky

  "Amber Heard On Set Interview DRIVE ANGRY 3D". Interview On the Set, collider.com. July 19, 2010.

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• There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Home, Thinking, People

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• It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Successful, People, Copying

  "Q&A: Jesse Eisenberg's Best Role Yet". Interview with Calum March, www.esquire.com. September 10, 2013.

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• I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Feelings, Wrecks, Moments

  "Jesse Eisenberg: Knocked sideways". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2011.

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• I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Way, Zombieland, Notable

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