Actors Quotes
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Act Quotes
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he`s stuck with so many bad actors who don`t know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor
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Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
Thornton Wilder
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All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Unknown
Subject: Computers QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give something
Kenneth Haigh
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Actors are beings who have tasted life`s nectar in that crystal moment when they poured out their creative spirit and touched another`s heart.
David Ackert
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Actors are willing to give their entire lives to a moment--to that line, that laugh, that gesture, or that interpretation that will stir the audience`s soul.
David Ackert
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You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that`s what the storyteller is, and I think it`s important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors ...
Ben Kingsley
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You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that`s what the storyteller is, and I think it`s important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors ...
Ben Kingsley
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Actors search for rejection. If they don`t get it they reject themselves.
Charlie Chaplin
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Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That`s not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of ...
Jodie Foster
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Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That`s not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of ...
Jodie Foster
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I work with the director and the other actors, but I figure that is about two inches of something that is a yard long. The other 34 inches is what I have to do myself. So far I have not conflicted with a director or writer or anybody else. But I know basi...
Geoffrey Lewis
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It can be a bit irritating when someone asks me how the new film`s coming along when I haven`t worked on Harry Potter for two years. Generally speaking, I have no problem with it. Most actors go through their careers without ever being involved in somethi...
Sean Biggerstaff
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I don`t have many friends that are actors. It`s a very faux environment. I don`t call people up after films.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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Actors think the grass is always greener. When you do a play, you wish you could be making easy money doing a film, because you work your butt off on the stage. Then you do your television and say, `God, if I have to do this one more time, I`ll just go cr...
Christopher McDonald
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I don`t storyboard anything. I go on a set in the morning and, unless a scene requires a lot of props, I won`t even tell the crew what I`m going to shoot first. I know what the setup is and which actors are required. But I have to see what occurs and like...
Robert Altman
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[on his friend and Heat (1995) co-star Robert De Niro] We know each other`s minds. We have shared some things that are personal to us, such as our roles. I know Bobby through his roles. But, then, I don`t think we actually talked about the actual work of ...
Al Pacino
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Gregory Peck was one of those few great actors of generosity, humor, toughness and spirit. From our fight scene in The Big Country (1958) to his willingness to stand up for what he believed personally, Gregory Peck faced life`s challenges with great vigor...
Charlton Heston
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Actors often behave like children and so we`re taken for children. I want to be grown up.
Jeremy Irons
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[1970 comment on Jean Renoir] He`s my style. Renoir`s good for actors. Renoir obviously loves actors and understands actors, and "La Grande Illusion," which I saw recently, is so modern that it could have been made this year -- the acting and the staging ...
James Mason
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[1970 comment on Jean Renoir] He`s my style. Renoir`s good for actors. Renoir obviously loves actors and understands actors, and "La Grande Illusion," which I saw recently, is so modern that it could have been made this year -- the acting and the staging ...
James Mason
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[1970 comment on Jean Renoir] He`s my style. Renoir`s good for actors. Renoir obviously loves actors and understands actors, and "La Grande Illusion," which I saw recently, is so modern that it could have been made this year -- the acting and the staging ...
James Mason
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Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I`m the opposite. I try to see how many lines I can whittle down...You can say just as much in 4 as you can in 14.
Glenn Ford
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I`m not somebody who really believes in curses, but curse this baby! - Referring to the so called "Seinfeld curse," in which little or no success has come since the show to the four main actors, upon accepting her Emmy award for "The New Adventures of Old...
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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[On Method actors] It is hard to dig them because they move like hermit crabs - they have to have a shell to crawl into and they don`t want anyone to get to know them ... They are offbeat and strange and always thinking about themselves. They are always a...
Gary Cooper
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There`s a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It amazes me how some of these little numbers with dreamy looks and a dead pan are getting away wit it. I`d hate to see them on stage...
Joan Blondell
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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 which actors inspired him] Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, "This guy is very cool." I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.
Jim Sturgess
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Actors have no color. That`s the art form.
Whoopi Goldberg
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My parents who worked in the business, felt lion-taming was preferable to acting. They said 93 per cent of all actors were out of work, and tried to talk me out of it. But I grew up mixing with Mum and Dad`s friends. Adult actors are really childish, and ...
Jack Davenport
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