Actors Quotes - Page 33

• A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

  H. L. Mencken

  Doctors, Political, Tin

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• Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

  Graham Parker

  Men, Singers, Pops

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• I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.

  Barbara Hershey

  Character, Thinking, People

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• I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Gun, Knives, Guy

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• I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.

  Rock Hudson

  Giving, Interviews, Helping

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• I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Real, Simple, Mythology

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• I'm an actor. I hate to blow everyone's illusions.

  Stephen Colbert

  Hate, Blow, Illusion

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• Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

  Alec Guinness

  Play, Lucky, Roles

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

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• I'm no actor. And I have sixty-four pictures to prove it.

  Victor Mature

  Acting, Four, Prove It

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• I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it.

  Ellen Barkin

  Years, People, Lazy

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• I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

  Ellen Barkin

  Teacher, Art, School

  "Ellen Barkin Talks “Another Happy Day”: 'I’ve been waiting for a part this good for my entire career.'" by Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2011.

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• 'Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor.

  Ellen Barkin

  Heart, Normal, Moments

  "Ellen Barkin Talks “Another Happy Day”: 'I’ve been waiting for a part this good for my entire career.'" by Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2011.

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• I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Children, Believe, Feelings

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• A lot of actors flame out.

  George Hamilton

  Flames

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

  Sean William Scott

  Singers, Whole

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• There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.

  Sean William Scott

  Tattoo, Makeup, Idiot

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• I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.

  Sean William Scott

  Trying, Figures, Stills

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• If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?

  Sean William Scott

  Guy, Film, Clown

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• Most actors feel only one way. We're just grateful to have a job.

  Sean William Scott

  Jobs, Grateful, Way

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• I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

  Kevin Nealon

  Comedian, Stand Up Comedian

  "Kevin Nealon On His New Special, The End Of ‘Weeds’ And His Worst Acting Experience". Interview With Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2012.

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• When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor.

  Tom Ford

  Kids, Eternal Sunshine, Guidance Counselor

  Interview with Jessica Hundley, www.askmen.com. December 11, 2009.

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• You know, actors are fans, too. And talent is very attractive to me.

  Kevin Kline

  Fans, Talent, Attractive

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• I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

  Angela Lansbury

  Gone, Desperate

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• I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

  Al Pacino

  Two, Shy, Kind

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• It's the idea that when you say 'actress', people think of an airy, floaty, no-brain person, which of course you can't be if you are an actor. It is an unfortunate word, which is why, for a time, I hung on to 'actor', because it just seemed more workmanlike, you know, like you say 'woman doctor' not 'doctoress'.

  Miranda Richardson

  Thinking, Doctors, Ideas

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