Actors Quotes - Page 39

• We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of "how do we find our authentic selves?" And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

  Annette Bening

  Voice, Self, Who I Am

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

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• I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

  Annie Baker

  Talking, Play, People

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• Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

  Beau Bridges

  My Friends, Oldest Friends

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

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• I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

  Benjamin Bratt

  School, Style, Training

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• I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Mind, Television, Film

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• Your job as an actor is to stay employed.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Jobs, Employed

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• I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Character, Men, Thinking

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• I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.

  Bryan Brown

  Ends, Take Me, Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor.

  Christine Baranski

  Wells

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• Actors love to act all those death scenes.

  Colin Baker

  Scene

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• As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

  Colin Baker

  Thinking, Focus, Attention

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

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• I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.

  Colin Baker

  Brother, Doctors, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.

  Danny Bonaduce

  Children, Lucky, Firsts

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

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• A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.

  Danny Boyle

  Trying, Directors, Looks

  "The sun is the star" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2007.

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

  Danny Boyle

  Movie, Space, Wanted

  Interview with Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. March 14, 2007.

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• As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

  Demian Bichir

  Lines, Speak, Young

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• As an actor, you know when you've got great material in front of you. When you're working, you think, 'Is this the one? The one that everyone will respond to and be moved by?' You pray that you have told the story well... that your peers will see it and audiences will love it.

  Demian Bichir

  Thinking, Peers, Stories

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• I wanted to give my actor a break. I wanted to live and to learn English. I wanted to be anything, a cabdriver, a busboy, anything to keep me away from acting for a while.

  Demian Bichir

  Giving, Acting, Break

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• One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.

  Demian Bichir

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

  "The Young Castro Comes Alive In Soderbergh’s Epic Che Through Actor Demian Bichir’s Performance". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2009.

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• Scarlett Johansson. I think people don't really realize how great of an actress that girl is. She's so beautiful and that distracts you from what she can do as an actor.

  Demian Bichir

  Beautiful, Girl, Thinking

  "Actor Demian Bichir Talks Hollywood, Scarlett, Oscars & Being Latino". Interview with S.J. Main, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2012.

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• There are some actors that are so gifted, that move you in such a way that every time you see their names again, you go and pay another ticket because you want to have that experience again.

  Demian Bichir

  Moving, Names, Want

  "Actor Demian Bichir Talks Hollywood, Scarlett, Oscars & Being Latino". Interview with S.J. Main, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2012.

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• Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.

  Edward Burns

  Independent, Shooting, Film

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

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• Spielberg gave us three takes before saying anything to us. Since then, I do that, three takes, to let the actors find their rhythm.

  Edward Burns

  Three, Rhythm

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• The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.

  Edward Burns

  Directors, Way, Film

  Interview with Maya Singer, www.ign.com. March 9, 2001.

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• The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Naked, Tools, Body

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

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