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“As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.”

“Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.”

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Author:Tyne Daly

“I want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character.”

People Want Character Actors Prove

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.”

Persons Jobs Actors Correlation

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.”

Wells Life Is Actors Crush Performers Unsuccessful Pitiful Pathos

Author:Arabella Weir

“I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.”

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Author:Pam Ferris

“I think I would have had trouble living with someone who didnt know what it was like to be an actor.”

Thinking Knows Actors Trouble

Author:Pam Ferris

“For aspiring actors out there, I would say stay focused and don't let anyone pull you away from your goals. Shoot for the stars so that if you ever fall short you can land on the clouds.”

Ifs Fall Actors Stars Goal Land Clouds Focused Stay Focused

Author:Ryan Guzman

“I really want to work with Tom Hardy. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are also on my list. Those are my top three actors. As far as actresses go, Kate Beckinsale, because she's so smokin' hot.”

Want Christian Three Actors Hot Actresses Lists Toms Kate Hardy

Author:Ryan Guzman

“Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.”

Thinking Looks Actors Parent Raised Scripts Storyteller

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“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

“I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.”

Ifs Want Problem School Actors Left Huge Hated Canada Auditions

Author:Brad Goreski

“With The Host, I think the actors could be really big names. That would be cool. Id love to see Robert Redford put on a beard and be Jeb; he would be amazing... Matt Damon has some very Jared-esque qualities, and then Casey Affleck as Ian and Ben Affleck as Kyle. Imagine the interplay.”

Thinking Bigs Would Be Actors Names Quality Imagine Host Beard Being Cool Damon

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“The days when the words Hollywood actor framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.”

Reality Seems Actors Party Hollywood Series Fingers Crowds Tea Extras Candidates Insult Tea Party Tag Framed Ham Bunnies Shameless Consultants Implied Pundits Quaint

Author:James Wolcott

“Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the whole point. We're doing this to create a kind of sentimental past for people in decades to come. It's their past, their history we're inventing here. And it's not how I look now that matters. It's how I'll look in twenty-five years as clothing and faces change, as photographs change. The deeper I pass into death, the more powerful my picture becomes. Isn't this why picture-taking is so ceremonial? It's like a wake. And I'm the actor made up for the laying-out.”

Source: Mao II

“When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor.”

Actors Nice Particular Periods Mad Fats Village Diaries Time Periods

Author:Nico

“I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do”

People Thinking Hate Actors I Hate

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.”

Actors Numbers Good Actors Dysfunctional Family

Author:Gene Hackman

“I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.”

Wells Happens Actors Scared Excited Say Anything

Author:Paolo Sorrentino

“I don't think Indian actors are good. A couple of them are, like Anupam Kher, but not many are there like him in the industry. There are thousand of actors and actresses in the industry, but you can count on hand how many of them are really good; the rest of them are just pretty faces.”

Thinking Hands Faces Actors Industry Couple Thousand Actresses Indian Pretty Face Actors And Actresses

Author:Russell Peters

“An animator is an actor with a pencil.”

Actors Pencils Animator

Author:Chuck Jones

“What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.”

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why”

Want Play Wanted Actors Ponies

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the theater than directing a movie, because then you have no time when you are shooting a movie to really work with the actors. You have to learn this craft somewhere else.”

Actors Television Theater Crafts Shooting Somewhere Else

Author:Michael Haneke

“If the audience knows what's behind the door and the actor does not, that's comedy. If both the audience and the actor do not know, that's mystery!”

Ifs Knows Doe Actors Behinds Audience Comedy Doors Mystery

Author:Melvin Helitzer

“The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.”

Moments Actors Focus Stage Scene Cameras Video Filmmaker Present Moment Video Cameras

Author:Jonas Mekas

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

Actors Retiring

Author:Larry Hagman

“It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.”

Art Play Actors Entertainment

Author:Robert Benchley

“The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.”

Art Play Beautiful Actors Fronts Entertainment Scenery

Author:Alexander Woollcott

“With any actor, rather than tips, I think when you enjoy working with somebody and you enjoy what they do, I think your reaction is partly to be doing what they're doing, so you're learning all the time, whether it be sub-consciously or whether it be just through the person you enjoy working with.”

Thinking Persons Actors Enjoy Reactions

Author:Luke Goss

“In order to be able to work with somebody in acting, you've first got to think that person's a good actor before you can enjoy working with them. I guess that goes with the trust.”

Thinking Firsts Persons Able Order Actors Enjoy Acting Good Actors

Author:Tim DeKay

“I think your text [script] is everything; it's what informs you; it's what gives you the given circumstances. Then you take that and you add your own creativity and your own spin on things and you make it personal. That's what makes that character and that text unique to you, when you personalize it. I think that's where your job as an actor comes in.”

Thinking Giving Character Jobs Actors Given Creativity Circumstances Unique Add Scripts

Author:Matt Bomer

“You can actually improvise a lot as a voice actor. It's not that entirely different than shooting a live action movie; the characters mouths are quite easy to manipulate once all the information is built into the computer. So you can improvise a lot and it doesn't matter really how far along they are in the process they can really just make the character say something different.”

Different Matter Character Action Actors Easy Process Voice Information Computer Mouths Built Shooting Manipulate Action Movie

Author:Seth Rogen

“I wanted to be an actor and I wanted to be a performer. Like Hugh [Grant] said earlier, we might all have this weird gene. Hopefully I will continue to have the talent to allow that gene to play itself out for as long as it can.”

Long Said Play Might Wanted Actors Talent Hopefully Grants Performers Genes

Author:Mandy Moore

“I think there are definite parallels between sport and art. There's a real sense of sacrifice. There's a real sense of dedication that is needed in sport that I think you can attribute to art. I think so much of it is about bravery and courage, being an actor.”

Thinking Art Real Actors Sports Sacrifice Needed Bravery Attributes Dedication Definite Parallels Bravery And Courage

Author:Matt Smith

“Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.”

Needs Actors Sacrifice Discipline Instinct Dedication

Author:Matt Smith

“Hollywood people don't want to be embarrassed by being involved with someone who isn't happening and cool at the time. But I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching.”

People Want Made Different Done Actors Materials Involved Directors Projects Happenings Hollywood Exciting Critics Embarrassed Standing Out

Author:Pauly Shore

“I love doing roles and movies that are different from each other. That's kind of why I like to be an actor because I get to play different characters and pretend I'm different people going through different situations.”

People Kind Different Play Character Actors Situation Roles Different Peoples Different Characters

Author:Josh Hutcherson

“A lot of people when they make movies, the actors act like it's their journey and that everyone is on the set to facilitate their journey and the whole thing is set up that way - they ask if you want anything.”

People Ifs Way Want Whole Actors Asks Journey Facilitate

Author:Ryan Gosling

“My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You don't resist what a director is giving you.”

Giving Trying Actors Attitude Stage Directors My Attitude Stage Actors

Author:Anthony Heald

“There are actors who make no decisions about how to play something until they're in the moment, looking into their scene partner's eyes. So they're completely available for whatever happens. And those are actors who tend to avoid getting into patterns.”

Play Moments Happens Eye Actors Decision Scene Patterns Available Partners Whatever Happens

Author:Anthony Heald

“Our job as actors, especially in front of a camera, is almost like textile artists. We spend so much time getting the right texture of yarn, and working out the color scheme, and binding off the weave, and making it just right.”

Jobs Artist Actors Fronts Color Cameras Work Out Schemes Texture Binding Yarn Textiles

Author:Anthony Heald

“I became an actor because I love solving problems. I'm a big crossword puzzle person. I love doing research. One of the reasons I became Jewish is because I love text study.”

Persons Reason Problem Bigs Actors Study Research Problem Solving Puzzles Crosswords

Author:Anthony Heald

“I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and have your director literally act out the part for you is sort of discouraging in a way. It's a very Eastern European thing to do - a lot of directors that I worked with in Russia did that as well. And, I never took that as an insult, as many actors tend to do. To me, I think it's just offering a certain energy - offering their flavor - and, instead of trying to sort of decode and communicate it to you, they just show you their flavor of what it should be.”

Thinking Way Should Trying Wells Shows Certain Reading Actors Energy Lines Directors Communicate Russia Things To Do Insult Offering Flavor Eastern Discouraging

Author:Jon Bernthal

“The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well.”

Trying Wells Actors Football Hopefully

Author:Jerry Rice

“I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.”

Thinking Actors Directors

Author:Ricky Gervais

“Obviously as a kid, for probably anybody who chose animation voiceover as a career in their adult life, Mel Blanc was the touchstone for everybody. He kind of invented the job and was the first voice actor to get onscreen credit.”

Firsts Kind Kids Jobs Actors Voice Careers Adults Credit Animation Touchstones Mel Blanc

Author:Tom Kenny

“My goal as an actor, as an up-and-coming actor in this business is to stay consistent with the work, you know, and if you do good work, and stay focused on the work, writers and directors will pay attention.”

Ifs Actors Goal Pay Attention Directors Focused Pay Attention Consistent Good Work Stay Focused

Author:Michael K. Williams

“My main goal, starting out as a young actor, was to carry the reins that Pac left off and to reach the depths as an actor that I know he would have reached had he still been here with us.”

Knows Stills Young Actors Left Goal Depth Starting Reins Starting Out Young Actors Pacs

Author:Michael K. Williams

“Having a live audience makes a world of difference to the acting. It keeps your timing sharp. When something doesn't work, the actor can sense the reaction from the audience and quickly move on.”

World Moving Actors Differences Acting Audience Reactions Timing

Author:Betty White

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