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Actor Quotes
"I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do."
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"I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom."
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"The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand."
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"A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly."
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"It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!"
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"I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not."
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"That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles."
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"I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade."
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"One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen."
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"Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything."
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"I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director."
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"I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream."
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"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."
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"In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback."
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"Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that."
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"What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it."
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"Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has."
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"When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them."
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"For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together."
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"Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman."
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"To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it."
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"But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor."
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"I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor."
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"I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films."
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"You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub."
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"Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws."
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"What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor."
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