Actors Quotes - Page 30

• I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

  Jonathan Frakes

  Thinking, Directors

  "An in-depth Interview With Jonathan Frakes". IGN interview, www.ign.com. July 27, 2004.

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• I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

  Jonathan Frakes

  Stars, Thinking, Directors

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• I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Hurt, Successful, Thinking

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• Every actor has their stalker.

  Erin Gray

  "Conventions: Another day at the office for celebs" by Suzanne Kelly, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2010.

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• The comic is today's western, so many movies, and I think that if actors want to optimize their longevity, it's important for them to meet the fans because those fans are so loyal and will show up at any movie or tune in to any television show they're on.

  Erin Gray

  Thinking, Important, Tunes

  "Conventions: Another day at the office for celebs" by Suzanne Kelly, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2010.

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• Being an actor you have a lot of expenses.

  Esai Morales

  Expenses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.

  Henry Czerny

  Play, People, Want

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

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• I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key - three-scene roles that are three kick-ass scenes. Growing up, watching as many movies as I did, I was always into character actors like that.

  Bobby Cannavale

  Growing Up, Character, Keys

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

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• I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

  Garry Shandling

  Know How, Knows

  "Interview: Garry Shandling (Over the Hedge)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 19, 2006.

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• I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.

  Jodie Whittaker

  Trying, Way, Sponges

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• I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Play, Musical, Lucky

  "Jesse Tyler Ferguson On Shakespeare In The Park: ‘I Love The Challenge Of Starting A Play’". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  New York, Dad, Mean

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• Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Passion, Reason, Historian

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• [on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare... An actor must act.

  Laurence Olivier

  Caviar, Feeding, Should

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

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• A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

  Russell Baker

  Father, Writing, Exercise

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• We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.

  Glenn Close

  Vulnerable, Protect

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

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• I'm an actor, that's my contribution.

  Glenn Close

  Contribution

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy.

  Glenn Close

  Thinking, Energy, Rooms

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

  Glenn Close

  Writing, Lines, Bottom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The fact is, as actors, everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to give people as wide a range of human behavior with some sense of understanding of that behavior or some clue to it.

  Grace Zabriskie

  People, Giving, Understanding

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• I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

  Fergie

  Children, Kids, Adhd

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• England produces the best fat actors.

  Jimmy Cannon

  England, Produce, Fats

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• Keanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I've ever seen. I can't believe he's a movie star.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Stars, Believe, Worst

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• I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

  Sydney Pollack

  Believe, Lucky, Able

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• For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.

  Steve Kazee

  Song, Passion, Writing

  "THE LEADING MEN: Steve Kazee, the Traveling Heart of Broadway's Once". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. March 17, 2012.

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