Actors Quotes - Page 23

• I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Country, Political, Fabric

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

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• I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

  Sally Hawkins

  Art, Lucky, World

  "Lady luck" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2008.

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• I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.

  Tom Hardy

  Movie, Dog, Xbox

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• Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Teacher, Astronaut

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• If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.

  Emile Hirsch

  Giving, Want, Rooms

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• The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.

  Emile Hirsch

  Thinking, Kind, Projects

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• During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

  Rachel McAdams

  Fake, Important, Way

  "Rachel McAdams On Working McDonald’s, Screen Tests And Love Scenes". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 16, 2008.

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• I think that power comes in numbers, and we're in an industry where the actors need to have a bigger voice.

  Julianna Margulies

  Thinking, Voice, Numbers

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• The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.

  Julianna Margulies

  Beautiful, Awards, Rooms

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• It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.

  Julianna Margulies

  People, Working It, Things To Do

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• I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to wake up with him. And I have the most amazing job, with writing that any actor would love and costars who I can't wait to see on Monday mornings. And I love coming home to my husband.

  Julianna Margulies

  Baby, Morning, Monday

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• One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer.

  Josh Charles

  Athlete, Perks, Brooks

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

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• I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

  Judi Dench

  Lucky, Actresses, Sometimes

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• I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

  Jane Birkin

  Teeth, Lucky, Thumbs

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• It's not often as an actor you get to be involved with a project that seems to be on the right side of history.

  Justin Bartha

  Sides, Projects, Involved

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

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• As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Responsibility, Team America, Television

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• I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.

  Amanda Bynes

  Cool Person, Normal, Prove

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• I didn't really want to be an actor when I was growing up - I wanted to be whatever I was reading about or seeing at the time. When I read The Firm I wanted to be a lawyer; when I saw Top Gun, I wanted to be a fighter pilot. So that's why acting probably turned out to be a good thing for me because I get to be people for five minutes or 90 minutes. I'd be curious to see if I had the attention span to be like those guys on 30 Rock and play the same character season after season.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Growing Up, Reading, Character

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• To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.

  Edward G. Robinson

  Mind, Honestly, Sincerely

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

  Jean Reno

  Lying, Men, Giving

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• It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.

  Jean Reno

  Thinking, Want, Please

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• The only thing I'm nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven't seen.

  John Oliver

  Genuine Concern, Talking, People

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• I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?

  Jon Voight

  Class, Guy, Decision

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• Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.

  Hayden Christensen

  Views, Understanding, Trying

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

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• Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.

  James McAvoy

  Years, Giving, Next Year

  "The real McAvoy" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

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