Actors Quotes - Page 4

• A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

  Jean Anouilh

  Good Actors

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• But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.

  Javier Bardem

  Art, Doing Me, Call Me

  "'Why am I doing this absurd job?'". Interview with Kristin Hohenadel, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2001.

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• Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

  Dirk Benedict

  Stupid, Dumb, Input

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• He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Strong, Anger, Passion

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

  Orlando Bloom

  Thinking, Trying, Cracks

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• Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.

  Jeff Bridges

  Pay, Publicity, Contracts

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• There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

  Nicolas Cage

  Acting, Lines, Method

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thinking, Important, Trying

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• When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

  Anton Chekhov

  Money, Literature, Letters

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

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• I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

  George Clooney

  Drinking, Years, Training

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• Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.

  Steve Coogan

  Fun, Integrity, Film

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

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• I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

  Kevin Costner

  Competition, Stealing, Scene

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• I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

  Bette Davis

  Laughing, Acting, Remember

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• To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

  James Dean

  Thinking, Neurosis, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Good Life, Suffering, Live For Today

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• Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

  Gene Hackman

  Numbers, Dysfunctional Family, Good Actors

  "Gene Hackman, Hollywood's Every Angry Man" by David Edelstein, www.nytimes.com. December 16, 2001.

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• Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

  Helen Hayes

  Fate, Hair, Color

  "On Reflection". Book by Helen Hayes, Ch. 4, 1968.

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• I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Fighting, Interesting, Guy

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• Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

  William H. Macy

  Preparation, Ninety, Percent

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• Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

  Helen Mirren

  Vagabonds, Rogues, Ought

  "Calendar girl" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.

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• Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Character, Doors, Knocking

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• Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

  Greta Scacchi

  Space, Theatre, Sacred

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• Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

  Gene Siskel

  Lunch, Interesting, Documentaries

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• While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Romance, Acting

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

  Donnie Yen

  Elements, Dynamics, Directors

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