Actors Quotes - Page 6

• I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

  Joe Mantegna

  Character, Kind, All Kinds

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• Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Team, Dimes, Dozen

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. March 31, 2001.

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• I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Directors, Three, Proud

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• One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Hurt, Character, Careers

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• I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

  Penelope Keith

  Thinking, Theatre, Want

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• David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

  William Hurt

  Artist, Knows

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. September 18, 2005.

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• If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character

  William Hurt

  Character, Lucky, Chance

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• As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

  Brendan Fraser

  Technology, Sophisticated

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

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• Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

  Jude Law

  Inspiration, Long, Film

  "Film stars step back on stage". www.cnn.com. January 11, 2001.

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• I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

  Eric Bogosian

  Bricks And Mortar, House, Directors

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• As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

  Linda Fiorentino

  Fighting, Blessing, Boredom

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

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• Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

  Alyssa Milano

  Insecure, Careers, People

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• A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.

  Gene Wilder

  Children, Stupid, Silly

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

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• I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

  Josh Lucas

  Thinking, Masters, Trade

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• I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

  Claudia Christian

  Working Alone, Used, Felt

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• Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.

  Denzel Washington

  Children, Wonderful, Knows

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• Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

  Ajay Naidu

  Landscape, Able, Should

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• As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.

  Emily Watson

  Cameras, Rooms, Structure

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• I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

  Samantha Bee

  Thinking, Doe, Politician

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• The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life

  Bruce Dern

  Differences, Bigger Than Life, Generations

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• There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Mysterious Things, Goes On, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

  Shirley Knight

  Ghouls, Levels, Film

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• It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.

  Claude Chabrol

  Writing, People, Interesting

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• No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.

  John Leeson

  Eye, Height, Fantastic

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• I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

  Bill Condon

  Thinking, Trying, Directors

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