Young Actors Quotes

• There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.

  Anthony Mackie

  Black, Actors, Young

  "Anthony Mackie: 'There are a lot of limitations placed on young black actors'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.

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• When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. But I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Character, Bully, Criminals

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

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• You reminded me of a quote that my acting teacher Stella Adler wrote in her book ['The Art of Acting'], which I asked her to sign: "The young actor feels some greatness inside themselves that they want to give back to the world." That resonated with me, but I didn't really understand what she was talking about until much later, in the way you surmised that my struggle to become an actor was from being this kind of introverted young boy.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Teacher, Art, Struggle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• They're making a movie about Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, called 'Southside With You,' and the producers say they've already cast someone to play young Barack Obama. Now, I'm not saying the president has aged a lot but that young actor is Morgan Freeman.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Play, President, Firsts

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• I started in comedy when I first started as an actor on stage and doing improvisational theater and stuff like that. So a lot of people who know me know that sort of side of me. But I got the roles that I got as an young actor kind of steered me in a different direction, which were, at times, darker characters. And so comedy was not something that came easy for people to think of my in those terms.

  Andy Garcia

  Character, Thinking, People

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• All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

  Harvey Keitel

  Beautiful, Jobs, Doe

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• It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and had no work ,no money, you know the story because you're heard it before.

  Harvey Keitel

  People, Actors, Stories

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• This is advice I would give to any young actor - if you go into a room with anybody and you come in with a positive attitude and a place of love, and you truly do love what you're doing, then the negative energy doesn't even get into the room. You just have to prepare, and then go in and be the best you that you can be, and you'll either get the job or you won't.

  Adam Baldwin

  Jobs, Attitude, Giving

  "Adam Baldwin Talks THE LAST SHIP, Auditioning for Michael Bay, Striking Up a Friendship with Eric Dane, Looking Back on FIREFLY and THE INSIDE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 6, 2014.

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• It's great to have people to bounce off and I love working with people my age. I think young actors have such energy about them and such a passion and a drive to do their best and prove themselves constantly, and to work with that is really fun and interesting.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Fun, Passion, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I grew up with it. As a young actor, I was always aware of the brilliant work of Shakespeare. We studied Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth in school. As a young actor, you're always mystified and intrigued by such brilliant work. To actually have the chance to be involved in this production was a wonderful thing for me.

  Ed Westwick

  School, Actors, Chance

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.

  Michael Caine

  Years, Hollywood, Actors

  Interview with Barry Norman, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 1998.

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• When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Careers, Actors, Goes On

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.

  Antony Sher

  Sorry, Opportunity, Theatre

  "Antony Sher, actor - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2013.

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• I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.

  Lucas Neff

  Acting, Actors, Young

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• Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

  Donal Logue

  Kids, Stuff, Actors

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

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• The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.

  Tony Randall

  Actors, Coming Out, Young

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• When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

  Dirk Benedict

  Different, Actors, Talent

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• My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.

  Yul Vazquez

  Running, Advice, Theatre

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• I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.

  John Gielgud

  Thinking, Opportunity, Actors

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• I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Silent Films, Hollywood Films, Today

  Source: collider.com

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• As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be Sean Penn, but I didn't have all the words to be Sean Penn. But I was trying to do something different in every role.

  Matthew Lillard

  Kids, Trying, Different

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.

  Michael Caine

  Thinking, Two, One Day

  "Michael Caine: A Life Large Enough For An Encore". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 30, 2010.

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• I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.

  Paddy Considine

  Hate, Army, Small Steps

  "And the winner is ..." by Craig McClean, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

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• I started acting when I was about nine. I always wanted to get into acting since I was really little but my parents would never let me because they'd heard all the bad stuff about being in the business as a young actor and stuff like that.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Parent, Acting, Actors

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• There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.

  Ed Speleers

  Drama, School, Wish

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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