Young Actors Quotes - Page 3

• A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all

  Charlotte Rampling

  Running, Believe, Looks

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• Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.

  Jack Nicholson

  Heart, Thinking, People

  "Happy birthday Jack Nicholson: A picture tribute to Hollywood's greatest vintage rogue as he celebrates turning 75" by Rob Leigh, www.mirror.co.uk. April 22, 2012.

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• A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this." But there's no right or wrong. There's only good and bad. And "bad" usually happens when you're trying too hard to do it right. There's a very broad spectrum of things that can inhibit you. The most important thing for actors - and not just actors, but everybody - is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create, and be free to try anything. To have choices.

  Robert De Niro

  Success, Ideas, Choices

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• I do not comment on my client's personal lives in the media. As for Luke, he did so once, a long time ago when he was an inexperienced, young actor and now with maturity and hindsight, he has learned not to engage the press in his personal life again.

  Luke Evans

  Gay, Maturity, Media

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• As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, "This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever."

  Tom Cruise

  Thinking, People, Forever

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• Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

  Uma Thurman

  Business, Crazy, Nuts

  Interview with Laura Yorke, Reader's Digest, July 2006.

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• I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

  Meryl Streep

  People, Actors, Way

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• I have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Actors, Young, Versions

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• My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.

  Ricky Schroder

  Dream, Disappointment, Mistake

  "Ricky Schroder Stars in New Film While Musing About Politics". Interview with Tamar Abrams, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

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• One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Auditions, Actors, Young

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• You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

  David Mamet

  Choices, Use, Actors

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• People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity.

  Mark Ruffalo

  People, House, Actors

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

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• Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

  Natalie Portman

  Sex, Thinking, Roles

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

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• If you want to be a theater actor, where do you live now? Young actors struggle on a Broadway salary. A lot of them live in shoe boxes; some of them are literally three to a shoebox. New York has gotten prohibitively expensive.

  Stephen Spinella

  New York, Struggle, Shoes

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

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• There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

  Kim Cattrall

  Mother, Niece, Nephew

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• A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.

  Robert Duvall

  Jobs, Hobbies, Actors

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

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• I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.

  Robert Duvall

  Thinking, Actors, Want

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• Heath Ledger's performance in The Dark Knight quite simply changed the game. He raised the bar not just for actors in superhero films, but young actors everywhere; for me. His performance was dark, anarchic, dizzying, free, and totally, thrillingly, dangerous.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Dark, Games, Knights

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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• I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Beautiful, Empathy, Actors

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• I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.

  Ben Kingsley

  Responsibility, Actors, Wonderful

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• I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Thinking, Roles, Actors

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• He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Song, School

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music, you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic... fame is a terrible thing to have.

  Denis Leary

  Thinking, Work Ethic, Acting

  "The End of Rescue Me, But Not Denis Leary". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.

  Uwe Boll

  Heart, Impact, America

  "Boll, Uwe (Bloodrayne)". Interview with Jon Condit, www.dreadcentral.com. January 1, 2006.

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• I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine.

  Liam Neeson

  Children, Boys, Games

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