Movie Actors Quotes - Page 2

• Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

  Sam Mendes

  Skills, People, Actors

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• The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

  Graydon Carter

  Actors, Milk, Actresses

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• The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

  Michael Caine

  Movie, Stars, Differences

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• Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Law, Actors

  Stephen King (2003). “The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands”, p.422, Hachette UK

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• Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

  Russell Baker

  War, Thinking, Opposites

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• Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.

  Jack Kerouac

  Lonely, Land, California

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• The actors I was most impressed with and who were influencing my taste were all movie actors, so I always wanted to do movies but I didnt want to go to Hollywood and become a waiter in the meantime. The chances are really slim that an actor will be discovered in Hollywood. ... Ive never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

  Gary Sinise

  Jobs, Hollywood, Actors

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• Already liberals are trying to rewrite the history of the Cold War to remove Reagan from its core, to make him a doddering B-movie actor who happened to be standing there when the Soviet Union imploded. They have the media, the universities, the textbooks. We have ourselves. We are the witnesses.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Media, Trying

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• In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors

  Max von Sydow

  Country, Theatre, Actors

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• I don't answer fan mail. I don't have time for that. It's like hundreds of thousands of people who think they're going to become millionaires getting autographs from movie actors. I don't have time for those idiots. I've got stuff to do.

  Bill Murray

  Thinking, People, Fans

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• Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.

  John Lithgow

  Doe, Actors, Sometimes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

  Mary Astor

  Writing, Play, Waiting

  Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”

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• Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

  Roger Ebert

  Actors, Influential, Century

  Source: www.aparchive.com

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• The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor. Do that first and say yes to people like Terrence Malick and Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen when they come and offer you movies. It's a great front row seat to filmmaking.

  Sean Penn

  Successful, People, Giving

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

  David Hockney

  Years, Drawing, Actors

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.

  George Clooney

  Looks, Stage Actors, Tvs

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• As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore. You still get a taste of life but it's not quite the same and there's something to be said for a more anonymous life.

  Clint Eastwood

  Actors, Taste, Chance

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

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• That's why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.

  Tim Burton

  Character, Monsters, Different

  Source: english.eastday.com

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• There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable for me to watch. You always learn from them.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Different, Watches, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why you'll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they'll tell you, it's because of the schedule

  Jason Marsden

  Actors, Schedules, Television

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• For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives.

  Woody Allen

  People, Giving, Actors

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• Everyone wants to label me, but I don't want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor.

  Riff Raff

  Rapper, Labels, Actors

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2012.

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• What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

  Conrad Veidt

  Use, Actors, Biographies

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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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• I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.

  Terence Stamp

  Girl, Cameras, Actors

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