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“Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.”

“Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.”

Self Actors Doubt Stranger Rejection Self-doubt

“Actors are not a great breed of people, I don't think. I count myself as something of an exception. I grew up in the theater, and my values were about the work, and not being a star or anything like that. I'm not spoiled in that way, and if I fight for something, it's about the work, not about how big my trailer is.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Bigs Values Fighting Actors Stars Grew Grew Up Theater Exception Spoiled Trailers

Author:Amy Irving

“Actors are not made, they are born.”

Made Actors Born

Author:Angela Lansbury

“Actors are one family over the entire world.”

World Actors Family

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.”

People Ifs Life Is Certain Actors Emotional Planets Performances Primaries Vocabulary Percentages

Author:Mary McDonnell

“Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get on to something. I always run out with lines as I think of them.”

Ifs Thinking Running Actors Lines Player Hot

Author:William Monahan

“Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.”

Lying Actors Findings Pretending Guise

Author:Mike Mills

“Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts.”

People Actors Deals Emotion

Author:Park Chan-wook

“Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts. So, working with this very intelligent, smart cast meant that sometimes I would only have to start speaking a word and these wonderful actors would immediately catch onto what I wanted them to portray, and how I wanted them to act.”

People Sometimes Wanted Actors Deals Emotion Wonderful Smart Intelligent Casts

Author:Park Chan-wook

“Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, "I loved you last night." And they go, "What about the week before?" They immediately worry.”

Ifs Lasts Night Actors Talking Worry Week Worst Tvs Series Last Night I Loved You Tv Series

Author:Tom Hooper

“Actors are pulled in so many different directions that unless you both are absolutely into it through thick and thin and completely sure about each other, it's just hard. I've decided I'll never date an actor again.”

Different Hard Actors Decided Thick Different Directions Thick And Thin Through Thick And Thin

Author:Jessica Alba

“Actors are responsible to the people we play.”

People Play Actors Responsible

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can.”

People I Can Play Actors Judging Responsible Honestly Labels

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.”

People Real Actors

Author:Sami Gayle

“Actors are separated all the time.”

Actors

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”

Men World Different Real Play Suffering Actors Laughing Comedy Stage Tears Men And Women Tragedy Casts Real Life Fortunate Shed Merry Qualifications Jest Prince Hal

Author:Oscar Wilde

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.”

World Want Years Two Seems Jobs Guy Next Actors Like You Screens Agents Hotel Expenses Another World Dump

Author:Danny Boyle

“Actors are such an insecure breed.”

Actors Insecure

Author:Joshua Leonard

“Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page, or in my head. I hear it differently. I see it differently. And then, you give it to an actor and it comes alive, in a way that you didn't expect.”

Way Giving Different Actors Alive Wonderful Creatures Pages Instruments

Author:Kelly Masterson

“Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.”

People Kids Actors Worst Very Good Naughty

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.”

Play Running Actors Literature Horse Jockeys

Author:Ralph Richardson

“Actors are the neediest people you're ever going to meet. And their relationship to real life, tenuous though it is because of all the wranglers, the money, everyone throwing everything at them every day of their lives -I think they're pretty much who they were before.”

People Thinking Real Real Life

Author:Scott Raab

“Actors are the only honest hypocrites.”

Actors Honest Theatre Hypocrite

Author:William Hazlitt

“Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.”

Way Actors My Own Enemy Worst Worst Enemy Be Encouraged

Author:James Purefoy

“Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.”

Soul Actors Levels Instinct Agents Managers Guts Odds Natural Instinct Gut Instinct

Author:Anne Archer

“Actors are very generous.”

Actors Generous

Author:Blythe Danner

“Actors are very good at not revealing anything, so they're safe.”

Actors Safe Very Good Revealing

Author:Mads Mikkelsen

“Actors aren't particularly deep thinkers. I'll simply tell the truth. That always confuses them.”

Humor Actors Men And Women Christian Fiction Murder Mystery Victorian Era Female Detective

Author:Gilbert Morris

Source: The Mermaid in the Basement

“Actors aren't fighters. They don't know how to throw a punch. So, there's a lot of hitting in the face. I'd much rather fight with a stuntman than another actor. I don't like fighting with other actors because somebody always ends up getting hurt.”

Knows Ends Faces Fighting Actors Hurt Know How Fighter Hitting Getting Hurt Stuntman

Author:Aaron Eckhart

“Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.”

Ifs Helping Actors Can Do Stupid Directors Aesthetic Sensibility

Author:Alan Cumming

“Actors basically are the type of person that with three seconds left, we want the ball. Give us the shot to make it or miss it. We'll take the lumps if we miss it, but we want the chance to get the glory.”

Ifs Want Giving Persons Three Actors Left Chance Missing Type Glory Shots Balls Seconds Lumps

Author:Bryan Cranston

“Actors basically do their thing on the set, and then you put all the pieces together, switch them around, and maybe put them a different way that looks better. We just give him everything he needs, and then he goes in and does his thing.”

Way Needs Giving Looks Doe Different Together Actors Pieces Different Ways

Author:Michael Rooker

“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 movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up.”

Kids Actors Fun Knowing Seeing Personality Directors Dancing Architecture Entertaining

Author:Jodie Foster

“Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.”

Play Body Actors Ghost

Author:Gail Godwin

Source: The Finishing School

“Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.”

Self Stories Wanted Actors Watches Vain Serving Storyteller Bully Obnoxious Self Serving

Author:Paul Bettany

“Actors can be very precious about their work and their scenes, but I think good actors have a strong understanding of narrative and are very often not as precious about that stuff. They just can't be because they understand what makes for a better film, and that it's the job of the actor to work toward that, and then if you want you can go to acting class or workshops. But making movies is not workshops.”

Ifs Thinking Want Jobs Film Actors Strong Stuff Understanding Acting Class Scene Narrative Workshops Good Actors Acting Classes

Author:Kristen Stewart

“Actors can become very involved in a role, but for a director or producer, that's your life for many years.”

Years Actors Roles Involved Directors Producers

Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol

“Actors can make five movies a year. A director can make one movie, every two years. It's a whole different level of commitment and of sweat equity, and therefore there's a direct correlation to passion.”

Years Two Different Whole Passion Actors Levels Five Directors Commitment Direct Two Years Sweat Equity Different Levels Correlation

Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol

“Actors can write and produce too. Then when I was working on Jason Bourne - having had that experience - instead of going back to my trailer and being separate from everyone else, I would sit behind the monitor and watch Paul Greengrass work and be much more included in the process. That was new for me and really enriching.”

Writing Actors Process Behinds Watches Produce Jason Trailers Enriching Bourne

Author:Julia Stiles

“Actors can't retire. What would they do?”

Actors Retiring

Author:Larry Hagman

“Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.”

Actors Impossible

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Actors come up and just blatantly hit on my wife in front of me and don't even look at me.”

Looks Actors Wife Fronts Come Up My Wife Look At Me

Author:Chris Pratt

“Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.”

Years Use Next Actors Hundred Years Ago Theater Brothels Use To Be

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical.”

People Faces Actors Sides Born Birth Passages Sections Good And Bad Canals Symmetrical

Author:Richard Griffiths

“Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.”

Reason Girl Actors Parades Runway

Author:Kate Moss

“Actors do these really gross, gun-'em-down movies, and I always wonder why. They're not good movies. And it's like, "Why are you doing them? Aren't you rich enough?"”

Enough Actors Wonder Rich Gun Ems Gross Good Movie

Author:Winona Ryder

“Actors do want to work with me and I'm very grateful for that, but you never know. I could write parts for them that they don't want to play and then all of the sudden they don't want to work with you that much.”

Knows Want Writing Play Actors Grateful

Author:James Gray

“Actors don't act, we're just being in a different circumstance and scenario.”

Different Actors Circumstances Just Being Scenarios

Author:Aeriel Miranda

“Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.”

I Can Actors Too Much Advice Asking Suggestions

Author:Matt Dillon

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