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Actor Quotes
"Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors."
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"I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does."
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"You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor."
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"I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can."
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"It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears."
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"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"
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"I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it."
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"There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers."
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"Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him."
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"I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing."
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"I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise."
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"I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me."
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"Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique."
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"Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job."
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"An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make."
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"I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none."
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"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."
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"Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person."
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"Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week."
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"I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor."
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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."
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"The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper."
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"As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role."
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"When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like."
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"Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him."
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