Actors Quotes - Page 35

• Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

  Brad Pitt

  Chance, Given, Versatile

  "Brad Pitt: 'I Would Love to Work in A Bollywood Film'" by Nyay Bhushan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 20, 2012.

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• In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Character

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• If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Teacher, Teaching, Class

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• Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name.

  Michael Keaton

  Names, Two, Yeah

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you’re waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.

  Dylan McDermott

  Careers, Waiting, Agents

  "Interview: DARK BLUE Stars Dylan McDermott, Logan Marshall-Green, Nicki Aycox, and Omari Hardwick". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2009.

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• As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.

  Dylan McDermott

  Jobs, Long, People

  "'The Campaign's' Dylan McDermott Reveals How He Broke the Ice His First Day on Set" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 10, 2012.

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• I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.

  Dylan McDermott

  Running, Mean, Thinking

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• I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

  Sam Shepard

  Character, Thinking, Roles

  "Sam Shepard plays with the Butch Cassidy myth" by Mark Olsen, www.latimes.com. October 09, 2011.

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• It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

  Sam Shepard

  Two, Apples, Orange

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• The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Quality, Silliness

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• Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

  Kenneth Branagh

  People, Important, Directors

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• We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Movie, Games, Growth

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• As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Character, Hair, Color

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• If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.

  Kurt Russell

  Thinking, Want, Pay

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• I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Father, Responsibility, Thinking

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• I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Media, Years, Long

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

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• Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

  James Spader

  Two, Directors, Different

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• You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen.

  James Spader

  Years, Two, Facts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My dad took me to my first movie.

  Steven Spielberg

  Movie, Dad, Firsts

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

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• I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Black, Peers, Actresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Dancer, World, Olympics

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• Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Growing Up, Nice, Newman

  "Dermot Mulroney Interview INHALE; Plus Updates on EVERYBODY LOVES WHALES and LOVE, WEDDING, MARRIAGE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2010.

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• I was a film student. I became an actor but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Students, Film, Filmmaking

  "Mulroney and Amazing". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. June 2002.

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• Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.

  Dermot Mulroney

  College, Years, Play

  "Dermot Mulroney Interview INHALE; Plus Updates on EVERYBODY LOVES WHALES and LOVE, WEDDING, MARRIAGE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2010.

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• There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

  Claire Danes

  People, Curiosity, Uncomfortable

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