Actors Quotes - Page 34

• I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Eye, Looks, Way

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• After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.

  Alfre Woodard

  Years, Roles, Strikes

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• The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.

  Billy Zane

  Acting, Would Be, Tools

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• I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.

  Gerard Depardieu

  Opportunity, People, Profession

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• The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

  Gerard Depardieu

  Men, Directors, Stories

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

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• The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

  John Larroquette

  Done, Broadway, Puppets

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• When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.

  John Larroquette

  Insecure, People, Degrees

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Thinking, Two, Together

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• I became an actor by accident.

  Christopher Walken

  Accidents

  "Christopher Walken Interview - HAIRSPRAY" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 08, 2007.

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• You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

  Terry Eagleton

  Long, Different, Lines

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• I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.

  Christian Bale

  Artist, Musician, Too Much

  "New Again: Christian Bale". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 17, 2012.

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• For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors.

  David Cronenberg

  Hurt, Personality, Guy

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• I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.

  D. W. Griffith

  People, Boards, Looks

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• Actor's life is very long.

  Jackie Chan

  Long, Life Is

  "Jackie Chan Says He's Retiring As An Action Star?" by Keertana Sastry, www.businessinsider.com. May 21, 2012.

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• The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

  Tom Cruise

  Giving, Film, Responsible

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• What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

  Tom Cruise

  Play, Too Much, Way

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 4, 2003.

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• The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Play, Important, Roles

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• I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

  Rutger Hauer

  Jobs, Thinking, Lucky

  "Rutger Hauer on Hobo With A Shotgun" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2011.

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• It took me a long time to find out that I was born to be an actor. It was the last thing on my list, although my list was very small. I didn't know what to do. But kids weren't supposed to know what to do back then; we were all cute and we'd find out what we'd do later in life.

  Rutger Hauer

  Cute, Kids, Later In Life

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• Well, of course, every actor's limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I've hit the wall a bit. I'm not ashamed at all, I think it's a process that you have to go through. That's how you learn.

  Rutger Hauer

  Wall, Honesty, Thinking

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. May 5, 2011.

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• I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.

  Elle Macpherson

  Directors, Roles, Looks

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• I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.

  Gary Oldman

  Movie, Magic, Littles

  "Actor Gary Oldman". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 14, 2011.

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• On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

  Gary Oldman

  Thinking, Directors, Example

  "Gary Oldman: 'I still don't have a publicist'" by Kate Goodacre, www.digitalspy.com. September 2, 2011.

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• People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

  Gary Oldman

  People, Different, Want

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