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Author:Uwe Boll

“Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.”

“Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.”

Knows Persons Actors Talking Obsessed

Author:Toby Stephens

“Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.”

Ifs Want Actors Rich Gamble

Author:Jeff Goldblum

“Actors don’t retire. They just get offered fewer roles.”

Actors Roles Retiring Fewer

Author:David Niven

“Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.”

Way Actors Independent Studios Dread

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.”

People Actors Enjoy Ordinary Treated Ordinary People

Author:Tom Hooper

“Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.”

Ifs Fall Actors Jokes Traps Being In Love Being Loved

Author:Gene Wilder

“Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.”

Knows Actors Athlete Geek

Author:James Roday

“Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?”

Wells Real Might Actors Real Life Tempted

Author:John Malkovich

“Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.”

People Used Actors Talent Type Skills Theater Casting Movie Actors

Author:Sam Mendes

“Actors have a different kind of existence because they blow up over night into superstars in their early 20s. Let's say you were a superstar in your early 20s and somebody gave you millions of dollars, I mean come on. Let's be honest here, we don't know anything in our 20s.”

Knows Kind Mean Different Night Actors Existence Millions Honest Dollars Blow Being Honest Different Kinds Superstar Early 20s

Author:Mehcad Brooks

“Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.”

Thinking Actors Acting Magic Forgotten Legacy Genes Finest Descendants Rogues Vagabonds Easily Forgotten

Author:Julian Sands

“Actors have a platform, especially during awards season. Which I respect. Everyone should speak out. Here's the thing: When it comes to using the platform, I'm a firm believer that when there's something that needs to be said, I'll say it.”

Speak Believer Firm

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.”

Way Use Pain Actors Opportunity Solve Storytelling

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing”

Knows Character Actors Perspective Impact Unusual Clothings

Author:Kyle MacLachlan

“Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them.”

Want Actors Hurt Bodyguard Entourage

Author:James Caan

“Actors have no color. That's the art form.”

Art Form Actors Color

Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“Actors have seven tracks going in their minds: They've got all the research they've done for the part, then they have whatever the director asked them to do, then they've got what the departments like special effects need them to do.”

Needs Mind Done Actors Special Effects Directors Research Seven Track Department Special Effects

Author:Tobin Bell

“Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.”

Actors Ego Delicate

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.”

Moving Actors Cold Skills Lifestyle Capricious Troubadours

Author:Natalie Dormer

“Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.”

Enough Actors

Author:Catherine Deneuve

“Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.”

Firsts Believe Humans Actors Happenings First Time Jazz

Author:Tom Sizemore

“Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.”

Way Ideas Actors Protect Humiliating Humiliated

Author:Nicole Kidman

“Actors have to remind people that they can do different things, not just the same style of one role.”

People Different Style

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.”

Thinking Moments Actors Optimistic Stay Optimistic

Author:Peter O'Toole

“Actors have to stay ready and be ready. They need to adjust things in their life, whether it be hair, teeth, take the time to do that.”

Author:Vanessa Bell Calloway

“Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.”

Thinking Knows Fighting Courses Actors Admire Terrific

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work. Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.”

Want Inspirational Light Motivational Desire Artist Humanity Actors Dark Acting Virtue Capacity Inspired Curiosity Quarters Vitality Frailty Stripes Fallibility Intermittent

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors for movies.”

People Artist Actors Fats Bullshit Ambassadors Interacting Chewing

Author:John C. Reilly

“Actors just need each other to act together.”

Needs Together Actors

Author:Steven Spielberg

“Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.”

Knows Actors Insecure

Author:Clint Eastwood

“Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.”

Play Guy Actors Winning Fun Awards Bad Guys

Author:Dean Norris

“Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy”

Giving Three Actors Disorder Dialect Mental Disorder Corsets Never Give Up On Love

Author:Robin Tunney

“Actors love to act all those death scenes.”

Actors Scene

Author:Colin Baker

“Actors make a bunch of money and they are superstars and then all of a sudden they are 35 and they are an old man and then you never hear from them again. So they basically live like a king for a decade and then they are done.”

Men Done Actors Kings Decades Bunch Old Man Superstar

Author:Mehcad Brooks

“Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!”

Ifs Knows Way Giving Important Actors Cutting Lovers Kissing Cameras Superficial Really Deep

Author:Rupert Everett

“Actors make choices for different reasons.”

Different Reason Choices Actors

Author:Stacy Keach

“Actors make less than you think.”

Thinking Actors

Author:Kat Dennings

“Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.”

Knows May Actors Know How Behave

Author:Carrie Fisher

Source: Postcards From the Edge

“Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.”

Thinking Might Happens Actors Practice Scene Restraint

Author:Cedric Hardwicke

“Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.”

Needs Kind Actors Force Nice Sweet Average Killers Aggression One Sided

Author:Stella Adler

Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

“Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.”

Way Needs Actors Answers Tough Determination Determined Profession Plenty

Author:Naomie Harris

“Actors never discuss future plans.”

Actors Plans Future Plans Future Planning

Author:James Earl Jones

“Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.”

Actors Retiring

Author:Desmond Llewelyn

“Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.”

Actors Poor Broke Temporary

Author:Alison Arngrim

“Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.”

Want Children Actors Acting Taken Behave

Author:Jeremy Irons

“Actors only have our bodies, voices, and the text. So I think actors need to have a fit and in-tune body. I was always very disciplined in wanting to have that. Thats one of my favorite things - playing a role with a physical requirement.”

Thinking Needs Body Actors Voice Roles Fit My Favorite Tunes Requirements Favorites Things

Author:T. J. Thyne

“Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.”

People Should Enough Actors Acting Stage Ought Ordinary Theatre Daily Life Larger Than Life

Author:Ninon de L'Enclos

“Actors, painters, dancers, comedians, even just ordinary people doing ordinary things, what are they without an audience of some sort? See, that's what I do. I am the audience. I am the witness, I am the great appreciator that's what I do and that's all I want to do. I worked for a lot of years. I did a lot of things for a lot of years. Now, here I am in the rocking chair, and I don't mind it, Lucille. I don't feel useless. I feel lucky.”

Inspirational Audience Life And Living Contentment

Author:Elizabeth Berg

Source: The Story of Arthur Truluv

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