Film Actors Quotes

• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

  Peter Sellers

  Inspirational, Funny, Movie

  "Fictional character: President Merkin Muffley". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

  Lou Gehrig

  Movie, Baseball, Men

  Farewell speech at Yankee Stadium, New York, N.Y., 4 July 1939.

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

  Michael Caine

  Funny, Humorous, Theatre

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• There are no small parts. Only small actors.

  Ginger Rogers

  Actors, Theatre Acting, Small Parts

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• A boy's best friend is his mother.

  Joseph Stefano

  Movie, Family, Mom

  "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Acting, Actors, Remember

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• A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Being Alone, Creativity, Careers

  Quoted in Ms., Aug. 1972

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• Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

  Bette Davis

  Acting, Stage Actors, Wonder

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

  Clarke Peters

  Looks, Stories, Actors

  "Is this it?". Interview with Adrian Lobb, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2009.

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• Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Honesty, Actors, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• The barrier between TV and movies has come down and film actors are willing to do TV and vice versa, because they just want to follow what's interesting.

  Tina Fey

  Interesting, Vices, Actors

  "Date Night - Tina Fey interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.

  Adam Brody

  Fun, Different, Actors

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• You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Stars, Rap, Crossing The Line

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• Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. Unfortunately, there's a style of acting going round, especially with the younger actors, where they talk without even moving their lip. Maybe it's because my hearing probably isn't what it was 40 years ago but I'm sitting there going "What did they say"?

  Clint Eastwood

  Moving, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• A lot of times, as an actor, especially a TV or film actor, you don't get a lot of interaction, or you don't get the feeling you are actually touching someone, or someone actually cares about what you do.

  Christopher Judge

  Touching, Feelings, Actors

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• The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.

  Omari Hardwick

  Jobs, Artist, Opportunity

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• It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

  Aaron Tveit

  Stage Actors, Television, Lines

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• You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.

  Aaron Stanford

  Long, Challenges, Actors

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• It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.

  Shirley Knight

  Actors, Wonderful, Film

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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, Actors, Levels

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• A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Editors, Directors, Actors

  "Munching apples with Helena Bonham Carter". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2012.

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• There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

  George Clooney

  Reality, Order, Thank God

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• Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Theatre, Different, Actors

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• I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

  Kirk Douglas

  Desire, Actors, Film

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