Actors Quotes - Page 32

• When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

  Rick Moranis

  Movie, Thinking, Say Anything

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• Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

  Julian Fellowes

  Eight, Cameras, Ninety

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• If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

  Uta Hagen

  Want, Existence, Profession

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• I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

  Billy Crystal

  Film Directing, Nyu, Comedian

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

  Penelope Keith

  People, Giving, Insight

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• I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.

  Gene Hackman

  Jobs, New York, Marine

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• You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.

  Gene Hackman

  Careers, Choices, Awful

  "Eighty-one Years. Seventy-nine Movies. Two Oscars. Not One Bad Performance". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. June 1, 2011.

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• Every actor wants to be everybody - play all the roles.

  Kyle Chandler

  Play, Roles, Want

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

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• I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of.

  Glenn Ford

  Silly, Wind, Fifty

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• An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare.

  Glenn Ford

  Thinking, Play, Trying

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• I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.

  Christopher Parker

  Kids, Doctors, Young

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• What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it.

  James L. Brooks

  Mean, Doe, Stuff

  "Director James L. Brooks talks Spanglish". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. December 16, 2004.

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• An actor is only merchandise.

  Chow Yun-Fat

  Acting, Merchandise

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• Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Acting, Mystery, Knows

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

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• When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Character, Giving, Character Actors

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

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• When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Children, Talking, People

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

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• What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Giving, Promise, Directors

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• Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor

  Rex Harrison

  Emotional, Acting, Cry

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• Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  People, Needs, Display

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• I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

  John Malkovich

  Theater, Supposed To Be

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• As an actor there are no drawbacks.

  John Malkovich

  Drawbacks

  "John Malkovich Interviewed - BEOWULF". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 14, 2007.

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• I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

  John Malkovich

  Movie, Eight, Talking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I like very much to do movies.

  John Malkovich

  Movie

  "Interview: Diane Lane, John Malkovich Ride Legendary 'Secretariat'". Interview with Brian Tallerico, www.hollywoodchicago.com. October 6, 2010.

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• I was never a fanatical movie person.

  John Malkovich

  Movie, Persons

  "John Malkovich On Set Interview RED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 14, 2010.

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• Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.

  John Malkovich

  Movie, Pitfalls, Done

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2010.

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