Actors Quotes - Page 36

• When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.

  Claire Danes

  Responsibility, College, Thinking

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• I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

  Elia Kazan

  Class, Firsts, First Class

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• I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

  Elia Kazan

  Thinking, Privilege, Intense

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• The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.

  Elia Kazan

  Dinner, Firsts, Should

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• There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

  Elia Kazan

  Broadway, One Thing

  Elia Kazan (2014). “The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan”, p.73, Vintage

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• You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

  Elia Kazan

  Self Worth, Ideas, Fragile

  Elia Kazan, Jeff Young (1999). “Kazan: the master director discusses his films : interviews with Elia Kazan”, Newmarket Pr

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• The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

  Talcott Parsons

  Paper, Stage, Written

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• I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

  Kevin Bacon

  Character, I Can, Loses

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• There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.

  Kevin Bacon

  Secret, Want, Sometimes

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• I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Thinking, Years, Half

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 18, 2008.

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• I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive.

  Matt Damon

  Thinking, Vision, Directors

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2002.

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• I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

  Juliette Binoche

  Easy, Things To Do, Felt

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• I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.

  Chuck Norris

  People, Critics, Has Beens

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• I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.

  Gary Sinise

  Games, Levels, Stage

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• Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.

  Sandra Bullock

  Opposites, Giving, Given

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• I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

  Helen Hunt

  Thinking, Brain, Directors

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• I've always wanted to do a family movie.

  Adam Sandler

  Movie, Wanted

  "Adam Sandler, Adam Shankman, Russell Brand, Keri Russell and Matt Lopez Interview BEDTIME STORIES". collider.com. December 21, 2008.

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• You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.

  Anthony Anderson

  Jobs, Opportunity, Rapper

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

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• Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.

  Anthony Anderson

  Opportunity, Years, Wings

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

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• Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

  Anthony Anderson

  Firsts, Able, Film

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• I've worked with some actors who can't act.

  Anthony Anderson

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

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• I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

  Anthony Anderson

  Comedian, Occasions, Happens

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

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• There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.

  Anthony Anderson

  Turns, Turn-on

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

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• Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

  George Clooney

  Jobs, Captains, Ships

  "Again, with 20% more existential grief". Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2003.

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• Actors, after all, dream.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Dream

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