Actors Quotes - Page 31

• The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

  Steve Kazee

  Musician, Singers, Able

  "Steve Kazee, ‘Once’ Star, Hits New York’s 54 Below With Original Alt-Country Show". Interview with Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.

  Burgess Meredith

  Character, Men, Born

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

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• I mean one of the weird things about TV and one of the things that some actors don't like but I kind of dig is that you never know where you're headed, I mean you never know what the writer might think of next.

  Mary McCormack

  Mean, Thinking, Might

  "Mary McCormack Talks In Plain Sight". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 20, 2009.

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• I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and I hope I am always in the same frame of mind when I act or do anything else. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

  Kajol

  Thinking, Interesting, Mind

  "I am tired of crying: Kajol". Interview with Roshini K Olivera, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Aug 2, 2012.

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• I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

  Kajol

  Television, Film, Refreshing

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• I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want things to be done ASAP. If I turn director, I might end up killing my actors.

  Shilpa Shetty

  Thinking, Directors, Done

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• Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Elements, Casting, Film

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• Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.

  Richard E. Grant

  Thinking, Cases

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• I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.

  Richard E. Grant

  Thinking, Posh, Cases

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• The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

  Frank Zappa

  Movie, Music, Art

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• I've been a very lucky actor.

  Bob Newhart

  Lucky, Comedy

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• The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.

  Bob Newhart

  Play, Discipline, Fascination

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• My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.

  Joe Namath

  Ego, Want, Kind

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• I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

  Shelley Berman

  Comedian, Becoming

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

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• When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Real, Museums, Trying

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

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• If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Character, Magic, Collaboration

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

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• I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Thinking, Want, Cop

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• There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Movie, Thinking, Actresses

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• The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is?

  George Sanders

  Acting, Humans, Human Beings

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• All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.

  James Cromwell

  Mother, Father, Inspiration

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• I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.

  James Cromwell

  Character, Mouths, Lines

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• For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life's end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.

  Bhartrhari

  Boys, Men, Wrinkles

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• I - you know, I'm not an actor.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Knows

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• So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

  Sam Kinison

  Moving, Careers, Numbers

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• I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

  Zoe Wanamaker

  Trying, Holding On, Rigour

  "Shakespeare and me: Zoe Wanamaker". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2012.

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