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“To create a situation where each new episode has to start in the exact same place as the previous one, with the actors' hair in the exact same place, seemed crazy.”

Actors Situation Crazy Hair Episodes

Author:Michael Loceff

“You know, it's hard as a writer to lose characters (and actors) you like. You really don't want them to die because you're not going to get to see them anymore.”

Knows Want Hard Character Dies Actors Loses Like You

Author:Michael Loceff

“No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.”

Looks Ideas Actors Taken Comedy Wonderful Journey Cheerful Wonderful Journey

Author:Stephen Fry

“I've always been a bit of a self-doubter, I think a lot of actors are. I still am.”

Thinking Stills Self Actors Bits Doubters

Author:Kit Harington

“When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.”

Way Doe Seems Actors Roles Like You Directors Mood Tone

Author:Kit Harington

“I don't think a lot of people really understand the commitment it takes to being a character that an actor in Hollywood would take to approaching a role that they're doing.”

People Thinking Character Actors Roles Commitment Hollywood

Author:Misty Copeland

“If you give a scene enough room to breathe, actors will hopefully find those magical moments.”

Ifs Giving Enough Moments Actors Rooms Scene Breathe Hopefully Magical Moments

Author:Greg Bryk

“For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play.”

Play Character Actors Thrilling

Author:Jessica Pare

“I love Jon Hamm. I'm so lucky to get to work with him and work so closely with him. We have a lot of these scenes that are very intimate, and very tender. Those are the kind of things that an actor lives for. Real moments of connection with other actors.”

Kind Real Moments Actors Scene Lucky Connections Intimate So Lucky

Author:Jessica Pare

“I'm not a big prop actor.”

Bigs Actors Props

Author:Nathan Fillion

“Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.”

Stills Sometimes Actors Can Do

Author:Clark Gregg

“As an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.”

I Can Actors Standpoint

Author:Megan Hilty

“I'm lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career.”

Whole Actors Careers Lucky Great Actors

Author:Elizabeth Banks

“Leonardo is the most incredible actor, on the planet, with a couple of people alongside him. Getting to act with him is just [amazing]. I walked away from my audition for that and I couldn't believe that I'd been acting with him. I've worked with amazing people, but my friends freak out that I'm working with him. I freak out in a geeky acting way. They freak out in a starstruck way. He's Leonardo DiCaprio, and his fame is so big. That's a complete tangent about that.”

People Way Believe Bigs Actors Acting Planets Couple Fame My Friends Incredibles Freak Auditions Leonardo Amazing People

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.”

People Thinking Knows Want Needs Shows Jobs Actors Poor Standing And Love Miserable Life And Love Standing There Psychosis Love And Death

Author:Charlize Theron

“The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.”

People Humans Kind Sometimes Actors Fun Stuff Conditions Core Pretending Human Condition Stripping Fun Stuff

Author:Charlize Theron

“It's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.”

Actors Opportunity Truthful

Author:Charlize Theron

“It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way.”

Ifs Knows Way Book Different Whole Character Actors Easy Views Written Easier Scene Draws Let Me Prepared Scripts Warm Point Of View Brilliant Enjoyed Accents Let Me Go Never Let Me Go

Author:Carey Mulligan

“For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.”

Ifs Actors Easy Records Stage Things To Do Climbing Broadway Easy Things Tackling Stage Actors

Author:Jeremy Piven

“I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer's couch in New York, and he said, "I've got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?" And I was like, "Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I'll fill 120 hours of my life with something." So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.”

Ifs Said Actors Fun Hours Five Four New York Directors Twenties Yeah Disaster Staying Flirting Couches Eric Lucy

Author:Ben Stiller

“I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.”

Thinking Want Actors Insecure Places To Go

Author:Ben Stiller

“That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.”

Use Actors Good Actors

Author:Sam Waterston

“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'”

“You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off.”

Ifs Knows Years Actors Five Lovers Series Hated Five Years If I Could

Author:Julianna Margulies

“I'm always shocked when actors have diva-esque behavior.”

Actors Behavior Shocked

Author:Julianna Margulies

“I'm one of those pathetic actors who will say yes to every play reading just because I do miss the stage so much. What I really miss about the theater is that in the end, it's yours to give. In television and film, it's yours to do and someone else's to take and someone else's to give. As much as I love television - the biggest luxury of all is to know that you have a job to go to - I do miss that connection and having that power over my own performance on stage.”

Knows Giving Ends Play Jobs Film Reading Actors My Own Stage Missing Television Connections Performances Theater Luxury Pathetic

Author:Julianna Margulies

“I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.”

Stories Film Actors Fantasy Worst Television Los Angeles Telling Stories Great Day Worst Day

Author:Nathan Fillion

“Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.”

Actors Drama Tradition Great Actors

Author:Idris Elba

“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

“I feel quite blessed that I can actually balance between the two worlds, because a lot of really talented actors I know end up getting set in a certain category and no one will ever buy that they can exist outside that category, even though you know full well that they can.”

Knows World Feels Wells I Can Two Ends Certain Actors Balance Blessed Categories Two Worlds

Author:Donal Logue

“I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television.”

Feels Writing Actors Television Cables

Author:Donal Logue

“I think that the potential for homegrown terrorist attacks is something that we have to be very concerned about, because, in many respects, it's harder to detect when you have an independent actor who may be living in our midst, in our own communities.”

Thinking May Actors Community Concerned Harder Independent Terrorist Midst Terrorist Attacks Homegrown

Author:Jeh Johnson

“The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.”

Thinking I Can Actors Roles Imagine Compliment

Author:Jeff Daniels

“I got the O.B.E because I represent England outside of England more...but thinking of me as an actor, I haven't done all the classical theatre, all the great roles. Think of Helen Mirren and me. Helen, who I adore, is a friend - should be Dame. I am the rebel, the revolutionary on the side.”

Thinking Should Done Actors Sides Roles Havens England Theatre Revolutionary Rebel Adore Helen Dames

Author:Charlotte Rampling

“I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.”

Wells Wanted Actors Well Rounded

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.”

Hard Stories Film Life Is Actors Cameras Things In Life Filmmaking Hard Things Good Films

Author:Matthew Vaughn

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

Actors Impossible

Author:Morgan Freeman

“The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.”

Feels Actors

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.”

Actors Wall Exciting Admire Posters

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I was going to be a High School teacher. I was studying at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, up in Canada. I was also acting in a wonderfully supportive theatre community in Edmonton. There's a lot of support for theatre there. So, I was having a great time, but I didn't consider acting as a serious career initially, because even the most successful actors that I know in Edmonton are not super successful. Acting over there is just not a success-oriented career.”

“It's weird how an actor can read a script and think 'it's really good, it's really funny, that's going to be really dramatic...' and then you get there and say: "Oh, I have to get in it? I have to get in the water?! Are you kidding?"”

Thinking Actors Water Scripts Dramatic

Author:Jamie Bell

“We're paid to care. That's what actors get their money for. But the main goal is not for the actors to be frustrated at the end of the show, but for the audience to be throwing their shoes at the television set. That's what we're trying for.”

Trying Ends Shows Care Actors Goal Audience Television Paid Shoes Throwing Frustrated

Author:Sam Waterston

“I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.”

Actors Stage

Author:Jeremy Piven

“I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.”

Littles Jobs Actors Realizing Looking For Work

Author:Nathan Fillion

“If you ask any actor "What single thing would make you really, really happy?" Among the top five things they'd say is not having to audition anymore.”

Ifs Actors Asks Five Auditions Really Happy

Author:Bill Nighy

“Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.”

People America Actors Interest Training Assuming Performing Zero

Author:Bill Nighy

“Close girlfriends I don't have necessarily, as an actress. Perhaps there is a thing of competition there, you know, when you're doing the same things, and you're the same age. I could be with younger actors, but woman of my age probably - there is and there isn't, one doesn't like to think of it, but I think there is a sense of competition. Which is good, also.”

Thinking Knows Age Actors Competition Actresses Girlfriend

Author:Charlotte Rampling

“The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.”

Trying Actors Crazy Tvs Industry

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???”

“Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.”

Art Form Actors Emotion Emotional Art Is Abuse Dramatic Masturbation Cathartic Acting From Actors

Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

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