Actors Quotes - Page 24

• I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.

  Joel McCrea

  Regret, Should Have, Harder

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.

  Melanie Laurent

  Liars, Lying, Thinking

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• I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

  Rose McGowan

  Passion, Trying, My Passion

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• I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

  Rose McGowan

  Choices, Wrong Choices

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• It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

  Michael Chiklis

  Interesting, Evil, Playing Someone

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

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• I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

  Kyle Chandler

  Have Faith, Enough

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

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• I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.

  James Spader

  Growing Up, Kids, Play

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

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• Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

  Don Rickles

  Wells, Wanted

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• My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.

  Sarah Gadon

  Stars, Occupation, Movie Star

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• I never wanted to be a movie star.

  Radha Mitchell

  Movie, Stars, Wanted

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• Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play.

  Rob James-Collier

  Play, Interesting, Villain

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Roles, Satisfaction, Surprise

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• Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Moving, Always Trying, People

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• Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Hate, Mistake, Film

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• Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Kids, Names, Forgotten

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• Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.

  Derek Jacobi

  Growing Up, Thinking, Lucky

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• I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

  Derek Jacobi

  Business, Thinking, Feet

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• I did an action series back in '97, and did very intense training; weapons, knives, hand-to-hand combat. The more an actor trains in that way, the more we can do on screen and the better it looks. Nowadays, they want the actors to do as much as possible and stunt doubles are primarily used for the dangerous things that aren't covered by insurance.

  Melinda Clarke

  Intense Training, Hands, Knives

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• I realize I have a lot of amazing opportunities, but I don't know how you can play a human being going through real human experiences without being able to walk down the street. If you can't live a real life, how do you play a real person? It always confuses me when actors work back-to-back-to-back with no break. If you live your life on a film set, how the hell can you relate to real people? You don't know what its like to not have people fussing over you all day, and that's not life - that's silly movies. I will always want to take breaks and I wouldn't be OK with losing that.

  Emma Stone

  Real, Silly, Opportunity

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

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• Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.

  Barry Pepper

  Fun, Mind, Would Be

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• I have always weirdly seen myself as more of a character actor. I have never been suave. I could never see myself playing James Bond. I suppose I could fake it, but I am certainly not James Bond in real life.

  James Marsden

  Real, Character, Fake

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• I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

  Keanu Reeves

  Movie, Thinking, Quality

  "Actor Keanu Reeves". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 22, 2012.

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• I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

  Keanu Reeves

  Cameras, Stories, Curious

  "Interview: Keanu Reeves Talks ‘Man Of Tai Chi’ ’47 Ronin’" by Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. October 31, 2013.

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• I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.

  John Travolta

  Stories, Audience, Ups & Downs

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• Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.

  Aleksa Palladino

  Directors, Safe, Crew

  "Exitmusic’s Passage Is No Secret". Interview with Amanda Duberman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2012.

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