Actors Quotes - Page 25

• I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

  Mireille Enos

  Roles, Requirements, Certain

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• Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Real, Imagination, Circumstances

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

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• I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Thinking, Aliens, Has Beens

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

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• A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

  Peter Mullan

  Directors, Kind, Fallacy

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• A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

  Peter Mullan

  Directors, Useless, Scripts

  Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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• There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer', that director's going to hate your guts. Particularly if it's a good idea.

  Peter Mullan

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

  2003 In a question and answer session at the National Film Theatre, London, 4 Nov.

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• I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.

  Brent Spiner

  Thinking, Unemployment, Guilds

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• In terms of American Horror Story and Nashville, what attracted me to those, and Friday Night Lights, for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn't seen before. As an actor, that's exciting.

  Connie Britton

  Friday, Night, Light

  "Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere Talk NASHVILLE, Doing Their Own Singing, Mastering the Archetypes of Southern Women and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 1, 2012.

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• I've always watched actors on the red carpet getting drunk and making idiots of themselves and now I'm happy to join their ranks

  Ethan Hawke

  Drunk, Red, Idiot

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• I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

  Stanley Tucci

  Firsts

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• I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

  Stanley Tucci

  Just Being, Dissatisfied

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• I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.

  Stanley Tucci

  Kids, Wanted

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• The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

  Christina Ricci

  Movie, Successful, May

  "Christina Ricci: The One and Only". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. May 1, 2001.

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• You always fear, when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story, that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson...

  Christina Ricci

  Movie, Ideas, People

  "Christina Ricci Sheds Some Light on Penelope". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 28, 2008.

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• When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.

  Danny Masterson

  Boss, Sometimes, Easier

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• When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.

  David Suchet

  Philosophy, Character, Voice

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• A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

  David Suchet

  Successful, Swindlers, Salesman

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• I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.

  David Suchet

  People, Able, Given

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

  David Suchet

  Play

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a younger actor, my motivation may have been 'Do you want that job or don't you?' Now it's 'Do you want to look like crap on film?'

  Liam McIntyre

  Jobs, Motivation, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As an actor, you never try to be someone else. You can't.

  Liam McIntyre

  Trying

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• For an actor to be working at all is a kind of miracle, because most actors aren't. So it's just silly for a working actor to say, 'Oh, I don't care if anybody knows I'm gay' especially if you're a leading man. Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out.

  Richard Chamberlain

  Silly, Gay, Men

  "Gay actors say coming out affects roles they get" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

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• For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.

  Michael Douglas

  Fun, Hate, Sharks

  FaceBook post by Michael Douglas from May 08, 2013

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• A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.

  Michael Douglas

  Good Movie, Want, Concerned

  FaceBook post by Michael Douglas from Apr 11, 2013

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• Learn your lines… plant your feet… look the other actor in the eye… say the words… mean them.

  James Cagney

  Mean, Eye, Feet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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