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“The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.”

Stills Able Actors Accents

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.”

Able Actors Easier Good Work

Author:Eric Ladin

“As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.”

Thinking Kind Persons Play Light Able Guy Actors White Color African American Stereotype Latino American Guys Ethnic Stereotypes

Author:Daniel Sunjata

“It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.”

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Author:Emily VanCamp

“I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.”

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Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.”

People Thinking Mind Seems Able School Actors Interesting Study Psychology Becoming Doctors Medicine Becoming A Doctor

Author:Rumer Willis

“It would be great to be able to follow in the footsteps of Bill Murray. I really respect his ability as a comedian, obviously, but even more so as an actor.”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“People say that one of the most important things about being an actor is to have thick skin, but I don't think that's it. Because you can't just walk around being tough, you have to be able to be vulnerable to do this. So really, it's about not being defensive.”

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Author:Jess Weixler

“With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.”

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Author:Marketa Irglova

“What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles.”

Different Play Able Actors Roles Aim Range

Author:Ruth Wilson

“Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".”

Ifs Men Want Wells Able Actors Achieve Photograph Handle Dialogue Exalted What A Man Wants

Book:Wanderer

Source: Wanderer

“People always feel like there's a big split between TV and films: I'm a television actress, I'm a film actress. Maybe that's how it was but I feel like there's not that separation anymore. And actors are able to kind of flow between both worlds - and connect to both audiences.”

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Author:Cobie Smulders

“I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.”

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Author:Antony Sher

“The idea is to keep reinventing yourself. Once you attain a certain status as an actor, your fans start expecting from you and you should be able to fulfill them. That's why I try to choose as many different kind of roles as I can so that my fans are not disappointed with me. It would also get boring for me as an actor to keep repeating myself.”

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Author:Arjun Rampal

“Elijah Wood confirms his standing as the foremost actor of his generation. ...Wood acts so eloquently with his sentient face and searching eyes that his job becomes one of concealing how redundant his spoken lines are - a tricky job he largely is able to bring off commendably.”

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Author:Jay Carr

“I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed filmmakers who wouldn't listen to the executive-suited wisdom, and they believed in me from director to actor. Not from salesman to commodity.”

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Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.”

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Author:Billy Wilder

“Well, I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to ... you start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me. And I'm grateful for the other things that have come into my life: grandkids, and restaurants and charity ... I've been doing it for 50 years. That's enough.”

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Author:Paul Newman

“As actors you're always afraid to go too far but Lasse Hallstrom wants you to go too far. He wants you to do it wrong, to be over-the-top, and that's so freeing to be able to think 'Now I can try and be bad'. There's no pressure on you and you don't feel you can make a mistake.”

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Author:Channing Tatum

“The atmosphere and the environment that you get on a Chris Nolan film that he and Emma [Tomson] create is one where you feel very safe and very confident and able to experiment with characters. It's a great place to be as an actor.”

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Author:Christopher Nolan

“I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.”

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Book:On the Art of the Theatre

Source: On the Art of the Theatre

“I'm not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don't need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who's been a father would be able to act.”

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Author:Bill Nighy

“I always wanted to be an actor and I'd never dreamt that not only would I be able to do this for a living, but also on top of that I'd be able to choose and steer the course of my own career.”

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Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“An actor stands in front of a camera onstage, and he controls time and space for the audience. He tells them how long this will take, where to look, when to look, what to think about it. And good performers should be able to do their part with the sound off.”

Thinking Should Looks Long Able Actors Sound Space Audience Fronts Cameras Performers Time And Space

Author:John Michael Higgins

“I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.”

Want Stills Able Actors My Friends Corners Bothered Supermarkets Pubs

Author:James Purefoy

“All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.”

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Author:Adhir Kalyan

“You want to have enough of a profile to be able to do all the work you can, but at the same time you want to have your own space. But there are a lot of actors who achieve it, a lot of movie stars even, people like Emily Watson and Cate Blanchett. They seem to be able to carry on with their lives and still produce wonderful, high-profile work.”

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Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.”

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Author:Paddy Considine

“I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.”

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Author:Suresh Raina

“A lot of my mates are actors and it's lovely to be able to work with friends.”

Able Actors Lovely Mates

Author:Luke Treadaway

“Why do all these people want [comedians] to be serious? The reason they want that is these are people who aren't funny. Anybody funny can be serious, but people who have no sense of humor, they can never be funny - and frankly, they're jealous. There's very few comic actors. Think about it. There aren't that many. It's hard because you have to be able to do both.”

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Author:Jon Lovitz

“I always say about acting: the audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. So if you're able to give them an experience where they feel, 'Oh, my gosh, that's me, that's my story, they know!' then you've done your job.”

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Author:Julianne Moore