Actor Quotes
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Act Quotes
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My mother wanted me to be a lawyer and I wanted to be an Actor. So I went to school, majored in theatre, and said `Mom, I have to choose my own destiny. I want to be an actor.` A couple of weeks after I graduated college I called my mother up and said `Ca...
Arsenio Hall
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My mother wanted me to be a lawyer and I wanted to be an Actor. So I went to school, majored in theatre, and said `Mom, I have to choose my own destiny. I want to be an actor.` A couple of weeks after I graduated college I called my mother up and said `Ca...
Arsenio Hall
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn`t be an actor. You`re in the wrong profession.
Uta Hagen
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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor`s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
James Dean
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Goethe said, `Talent is developed in privacy, ` you know?And it`s really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don`t think most people realize for an actor. It`s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you`ll let the whole world in ...
Marilyn Monroe
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I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.
Ryan Phillippe
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I`m no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.
Clark Gable
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I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family. I just didn`t have the skills to pull that off and so...
Mark Hamill
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(On what he won`t do as an actor) "I won`t do slasher movies, and I won`t play child molesters or men who beat women. I can`t rationalize Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday 13th films because they`re too one-note. And besides I`ve been killed in so many m...
Lance Henriksen
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There are three stages of an actor`s career. Young, old, and "You look good`"
Burt Reynolds
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[Acknowledging that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg originally wanted another actor to play Indiana Jones]: "My playing Indy was mentioned to me about only six weeks before shooting started, but being second choice wasn`t at all offensive. I would alway...
Harrison Ford
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I would say if you think you could survive without being an actor - don`t do it. It`s a horrible, painful, wonderful but miserable business.
Amber Benson
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The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime.
Marlene Dietrich
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[on Robert Mitchum] I think Bob is one of the very great actors and that his resources as an actor have never been fully tapped. He could be a Shakespearean actor. In fact, I think that he could play King Lear.
John Huston
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[on Robert Mitchum] I think Bob is one of the very great actors and that his resources as an actor have never been fully tapped. He could be a Shakespearean actor. In fact, I think that he could play King Lear.
John Huston
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I`ve always been a character actor, although I`m not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even `pass the salt` - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I`m saying that. ...
Christopher Walken
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[on Casino Royale (2006)] I`m looking forward to it like we`re all looking forward to it. Daniel Craig is a great actor and he`s going to do a fantastic job.
Pierce Brosnan
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[Time magazine, 10/13/97] You shouldn`t speak until you know what you`re talking about. That`s why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I`m a f---ing actor! ...
Brad Pitt
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I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.
Christopher Lee
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I would have loved to make a lot of money as an actor. I would have loved to not live in a shitty little apartment for most of the time I`ve been in Los Angeles. I would have loved to have nice things and bought new cars, but it`s painful for me to do a b...
Adrien Brody
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I see myself much more so as an actor. Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood. I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.
William Baldwin
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I see myself much more so as an actor. Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood. I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.
William Baldwin
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[When asked why he hides his box office good looks behind strange wigs, fake teeth, and girly squeals] "I think it`s an actor`s responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he`s working with, but for the audience. If you just g...
Johnny Depp
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Every actor, every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood, or else you`re nothing!
Rita Hayworth
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I have a face that does not belong to a thief. [When asked why he thinks he became so successful as an actor]
Paul Newman
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You are always away from home, as a film actor. Look at me now. You can be stuck in a hotel, several thousand miles away in a whole different time zone, and it is never glamorous. You can`t sleep, you put on the television in the middle of the night when ...
Bill Murray
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It takes a long time to learn to treat the camera as a friend and confidant, which finally you have to do if you`re to become a good film actor.
Rex Harrison
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I`m an actor who does really interesting work in independent movies. I want to keep doing that because I don`t want the burden of an opening weekend sitting on my shoulders.
Brian Cox
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Some people just court celebrity for the sake of it. People like Tom Cruise. He was always a great actor, but I think the man`s lost it, lost it. You won`t ever catch me jumping up and down on Oprah going on about how I love this woman. And then others st...
Jon Bon Jovi
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[Commenting on his difficult childhood and finding success as an actor]: Being locked in the closets, and beat up, and burned, and sexual stuff and to come out from under it, I mean, it`s lovely. I mean, most people like me end up on death row, or in the ...
Robert Blake
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