Actors Quotes - Page 22

• It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.

  Winona Ryder

  People, Crowds, Realizing

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• I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.

  Michael Vartan

  Jobs, Crazy, Thinking

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

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• There's a freedom there and an understanding of my career and the things I've done. I'm seen here as primarily a comic actor, which is OK, but I can go to New York and I do something that's very emotional. It would be lovely at some point to do something like that on film.

  Nathan Lane

  New York, Emotional, Careers

  "If there's a mouse, call Lane - Actor didn't 'paws' before taking on film" by Betsy Pickle, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, December 17, 1999.

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• I'm a Methodist, but not as an actor.

  James Garner

  Methodists

  James Garner, Jon Winokur, Julie Andrews (2012). “The Garner Files: A Memoir”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.

  James Garner

  Running, Differences, Office

  James Garner, Jon Winokur, Julie Andrews (2012). “The Garner Files: A Memoir”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.

  Harry Shearer

  Stars, Childhood, Parent

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• I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Mother, Father, Doctors

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• I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Art, School, Play

  "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

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• I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Play, Guy, Age

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• I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Character, Thinking, Able

  "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

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• I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

  Thandie Newton

  Stars, Successful, Roles

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

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• I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy.

  Klaus Kinski

  Laughter, Grief, Joy

  Klaus Kinski (1997). “Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski”, Penguin Books

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• If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world.

  Josh Hartnett

  Writing, Thinking, Light

  "Hart throb" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2002.

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• I became popular very young. I viewed myself as just a young actor trying to figure out how to do well, and, you know, making mistakes and learning and growing.

  Josh Hartnett

  Mistake, Trying, Growing

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• You think that if you are the best actor, you deserve the most or if you are the biggest star, you deserve the most. That race just isn't important to me.

  Josh Hartnett

  Stars, Thinking, Race

  "Josh Hartnett for “Wicker Park”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. September 2, 2004.

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• A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.

  Christian Bale

  Done, Speak, Authority

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

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• I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

  Christian Bale

  Too Much, Politician, Kicks

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• It's important to me that I don't get trapped in the whole teen scene, because I feel that you can get lost in those kind of movies, and they aren't really about the actors; they're about the selling of the concept, and how much money it makes.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Important, Kind, Scene

  "Leader of the pack". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2000.

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• The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Jobs, Hardest Job, Scared

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• I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'

  Melissa McCarthy

  School, Textiles, Costumes

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• I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with.

  Ally Walker

  Fun, Thinking, Challenges

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• I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

  Christine Lahti

  Two, Important, Rehearsal

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• Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

  Christine Lahti

  News, Reason, Good Work

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• I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.

  Claire Danes

  Growing Up, Understanding, Sound

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• I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

  Sean Penn

  Directors, Directing Movies, I Can

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