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“Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.”

Want Play Character Reality Would Be Actors Like Me

Author:Emily Osment

“Actors push pause on their lives, fly to foreign countries, invest so much and work so hard and get so intimate with a group of people from a crew and cast, and then they say 'that's a wrap' and you push play on your life and there's a middle part of the sandwich, or a tunnel or bridge that you have to kind of walk back over before you can hit play.”

People Kind Country Intimate

Author:Lara Pulver

“Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.”

Actors Position Awkward

Author:Charlie Day

“Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.”

Real Together Actors Directors Real Life

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“Actors read lines and change their facial expressions.”

Actors Lines Script Actor Actress Scripted Overrated Actors Overrated Celebrities Secondary Creators Talentless Actors

Author:Jack Freestone

“Actors read lines and change their facial expressions. Even then they usually need a director to tell them how to do it. It could be argued that actors are not creators or are at best secondary creators. Actors create something from something, usually a prewritten script. Whereas sculptors will create something from the raw material of the earth only using their hands and no other tools. In this regard sculptors are higher creators than painters, and painters are higher creators than musicians or writers who use symbols and tools to create. Actors however are the lowest of all creators. Perhaps that helps to explain why Hitchcock said, “Actors should be treated as cattle.”

Actors Actresses Hitchcock Creators Movie Stars Alfred Hitchcock Overrated Actors Overrated Celebrities Primary Creators

Author:Jack Freestone

“Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.”

Film Actors Fun Integrity

Author:Steve Coogan

“Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.”

Ifs Actors Acting Humorous Rejection Rejects

Author:Charlie Chaplin

“Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.”

Should Writing Actors Sells Perfume Cookbook

Author:Lauren Graham

Source: Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel

“Actors should arouse a sense of wonder because of their ability to exceed what the spectators can envision ever being able to do.”

Should Able Actors Ability Wonder Spectators Exceed Sense Of Wonder

Author:Jerzy Grotowski

“Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.”

Should Actors Acting Audience Percent Performances

Author:Shirley Booth

“Actors should be timeless and impersonal.”

Should Actors Timeless

Author:Anne Parillaud

“Actors should never give interviews.”

Giving Should Actors Interviews

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“Actors should shut up about politics. They tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cosy up to some flavour of-the-month liberal.”

Should Actors Months Fingers Ill Shut Up Flavour Cosy Pointers

Author:Mickey Rourke

“Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.”

Ifs Real Actors Speak Christianity Imaginary Preacher

Author:Thomas Betterton

“Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.”

People Should Mean Enough School Film Law Political Actors Deals Opinion Gone Havens Policy Educated Experts Platforms Law School

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Actors strive to be part of something like 'Twilight' and what 'Twilight' is, is unbelievable.”

Actors Strive Twilight Unbelievable

Author:Kellan Lutz

“Actors such as Cagney, Robinson and Bogart seem to gather within themselves the qualities of the genres they appear in, so that the violence, suffering and angst of the films is restated in their faces, physical presence, movement and speech. By the curious alchemy of the cinema, each successive appearance in a given genre further solidifies the actor's screen persona until they no longer play a role but assimilate it to the collecive entity made up of their own body, personality and past screen roles. For instance, the beat-up face. tired eyes and rasping voice by which we identify Humphrey Bogart are, in part, selections we have made from his roles as Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe and others.”

Genre Humphrey Bogart Holywood Gangster Movies Screen Persona

Author:Colin McArthur

Source: Underworld USA

“Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.”

Able Actors Lines Creative Risk Breathe

Author:Patty Duke

“Actors tend to be quite good at getting on with people. If you’re an arsehole, people don’t want to work with you. You won’t get hired Well, there are a few arseholes.”

People Ifs Want Wells Actors Arseholes

Author:Bertie Carvel

“Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.”

Want Art Age Actors Stuff Cutting Achieve Simplicity Useless Get Better Useless Stuff

Author:James Purefoy

“Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying ‘God I hope I don’t screw this up.’ But at the same time, the directors are saying, ‘God, I hope this person is the savior.’ You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don’t get the job you don’t already have.”

Way Persons Happens Jobs Remember Actors Process Worst Directors Savior Worst Things Auditions Screws Screw Ups

Author:George Clooney

“Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else.”

Knows Used Actors Know How One Thing Performances Scripts Edits

Author:Idris Elba

“Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.”

People Thinking Important Self Fall Actors Hurt Importance Colossal Self-importance

Author:Julia Sawalha

“Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom”

Today Actors Acting Tvs

Author:Lauren Bacall

“Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If you photograph well, that's enough. I have a terrible time distinguishing one from another. Girls wear their hair the same, and are much too anorexic-looking.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Enough Today Girl Actors Acting Tvs Hair Terrible Photograph Other Girl Stardom Anorexics Terrible Times Another Girl

Author:Lauren Bacall

“Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.”

People Thinking Knows Want Use Hate Actors Bits Keys

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.”

Feels Character Actors Aspect Minors

Author:Jeff Perry

“Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.”

Actors Waiting Directors Tables Stores Video

Author:Joss Whedon

“Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.”

Want Littles Actors Walks Interesting Acting Watches Cry Skills Tools Hats Belts

Author:Kristen Stewart

“Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.”

Want Actors Input

Author:Stuart Townsend

“Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another guy do it, it's going to be a whole different experience.”

Want Different Whole Guy Actors Again And Again Other Guys Different Experiences

Author:Joshua Bell

“Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.”

Want Two Actors Week Creating Advantage Mentality Impress Two Weeks Siege

Author:Danny Boyle

“Actors want to show off and dance in front of you and get your love, because they don't think they're worthy of it in any other way.”

Thinking Love Is Worthy Showing Off

Author:Frank Langella

“Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.”

Want Kind Happens Actors Surprise

Author:Claire Danes

“Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.”

Want Sometimes Actors Blind Orchestra Symphony Partiality

Author:James Gray

“Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.”

Want Giving Play Character Stories Actors Hopefully Budgets

Author:Lorene Scafaria

“Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.”

States Actors Managers Capitalist

Author:Bela Lugosi

“Actors were the first people to accept me.”

People Firsts Actors Accepting Accept Me

Author:Michael Lindsay-Hogg

“Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.”

Ifs May Real Actors Emotion Audience Lovers Real Life Sincere Temporary Incapable

Author:Ivor Novello

“Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.”

Men Play Actors Politician Great Actors Macarthur

Author:William Manchester

“Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that.”

I Can Actors Belief Absolutes Admire Because I Can

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.”

Character Lying Actors Schizophrenic

Author:Bruce Campbell

“Actors who say they don't watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it's how I research for auditions.”

Actors Watches Stupid Tvs Research Raised Auditions

Author:Rebecca Mader

“Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.”

Faces Actors Stars Voice Roles Hair Disappear Movie Star

Author:Nicholas Meyer

“Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.”

People Looks Ideas Character Actors Computer Versions Replaced

Author:Peter Jackson

“Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?”

Said Character Actors

Author:James Gandolfini

“Actors work for many reasons. Sometimes you do it because the material is good. Sometimes you do it because the paycheck is good. We would love to only do things that are art, that are artistic and that satisfy us, but this is our job, as well.”

Wells Art Sometimes Reason Jobs Actors Materials Artistic Paychecks

Author:Michael Cudlitz

“Actors work with their look. I come from the Lon Chaney Sr. school of acting. I'll wear wigs, I'll wear nose pieces, I'll wear green contact lenses in my eyes. I'll do whatever I need to do to create a character.”

Needs Looks Character Eye School Actors Acting Pieces Green Contact Noses Lenses Wigs Contact Lenses

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.”

Looks Mother Actors Worry Daughter Weight Breaths Mother Daughter Leading Ladies Bad Breath

Author:Matthew Ashford

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