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“I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.”

Thinking World Film Actors Directors Theater

“It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.”

Thinking Film Actors Too Much Dangerous Movie Disagree Filmmaking Popularity Contests Popularity Contest

Author:Julia Leigh

“I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.”

People Ifs Thinking Long Ideas Next Actors Knowing Conditions Insecurity Stability Not Knowing Going To Work Continuity

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.”

People Thinking Play Actors Ghost Worried

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.”

Thinking Used Actors Frank

Author:Matthew Modine

“I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Play Actors Mistake Audience Don't Believe Work Out I Don't Believe You

Author:Richard Madden

“I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.”

Thinking Stills Jobs Actors Disease

Author:Roddy McDowall

“I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Believe States Actors Lines Ability Fine Type Ill Insane Performing Fine Lines Mentally Ill

Author:Samantha Morton

“I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.”

Thinking Men Character Would Be Turns Actors Character Actors Dashing

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I think actors who take things too far are funny.”

Thinking Actors

Author:Dean Norris

“I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.”

Thinking Way Together Jobs Joy Reading Actors Particular Scripts Woven Joy Of Reading

Author:Jeremy Northam

“I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.”

Thinking Actors Fun Normal

Author:Lucas Neff

“You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.”

People Thinking Choices Actors Access

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“Where I come from, you don't just say, 'Oh, I'm going to become an actor.' Talk like that and they think you're crazy.”

Thinking Actors Crazy

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.”

Thinking Artist Actors Opinion My Favorite

Author:Josh Peck

“I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.”

Thinking Jobs Lasts Next Actors

Author:Josh Peck

“I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.”

Ifs Thinking Different Play Would Be Actors Challenges Roles Type Aspire

Author:Vanessa Lengies

“If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Actors Fool Prepared Spouse Warts

Author:Adrian Lyne

“I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.”

Thinking Actors Bits Interesting Rough Posh

Author:Damian Lewis

“I like to think of myself as a physical actor.”

Thinking Actors

Author:David Oyelowo

“I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.”

Ifs Thinking Want Character Actors Stars Careers Beats Expectations Mirrors Admire Curious Movie Star Character Actors

Author:David Oyelowo

“I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.”

Thinking Knows Play Wanted America Actors Middle Grew Grew Up My Family Princess Brides Princess Bride Middle America

Author:Missi Pyle

“I left L.A. and moved to Cleveland for four years in the early 2000s or whatever. I came back and thought that everything had changed. I was like, 'Oh my God, I don't think I ever fit in here. And wait, who are all of these celebrities that are not actors? Where did all of the actors go?”

Thinking Years Actors Left Waiting Four Changed Fit Moved Four Years Cleveland

Author:Monica Potter

“I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.”

Thinking Want Two Actors Rich Groups Divided

Author:Franka Potente

“There are a lot of actors that I really love to watch, actors who I have fun watching - I think Johnny Depp is phenomenal. But I wouldn't want that career as much as I'd like a career like Tom Hanks - he kind of represents the everyman.”

Thinking Want Kind Actors Fun Careers Watches Having Fun Toms Phenomenal Everyman

Author:Jared Padalecki

“Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.”

Thinking Needs Children Remember Actors Directors Performances Tricks Child Actors

Author:Asia Argento

“I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.”

Thinking Knows Persons Actors Too Much

Author:Molly Parker

“I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.”

Ifs Thinking Way Ends Character Actors Left Term Make Sense

Author:Molly Parker

“I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.”

Thinking Wells Play Actors Concerned

Author:Molly Parker

“When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.”

People Thinking Kind Actors Watches Kissing Normal And Love Paid Attraction Partners Touching Gross Attraction And Love Kissing Someone Monogamous Relationship

Author:Megan Fox

“I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.”

Thinking Knows Trying Firsts Ideas Actors Laughing Pretentious Have A Laugh

Author:Rosamund Pike

“As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.”

Thinking Important Character Life Is Actors Liberty

Author:Ashley Rickards

“I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.”

Thinking Needs Actors Emotion Drawing Steady

Author:Kelly Reilly

“From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.”

Thinking Actors Careers

Author:Alan Rickman

“When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you're in a house, you don't think about being in the house; you're just there.”

Thinking Writing Whole Happens Actors House Lost Scene Deeper Things Happen Unconscious Email

Author:David O. Russell

“I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.”

People Thinking Want Feels Wells Looks Moments Actors Deals Complaining Rotten

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.”

Thinking Ideas Different Character Actors Fun Seeing Directors Passionate Different Ideas

Author:Elizabeth Reaser

“Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.”

Thinking Knows Years Firsts Wells Character Wanted Guy Actors Gone Character Actors

Author:Stephen Root

“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

“I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as an artist and an actor. In that sense, it had to have helped me.”

People Thinking Artist Actors Levels Special East Chicago Sensibility Coast Midwest East Coast Confluence Special People

Author:Daniel Sunjata

“No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.”

Thinking Way Writing Littles Actors Bits Little Bit

Author:Lorene Scafaria

“I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.”

“I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.”

People Thinking I Can Actors Can Do Curious Dramatic

Author:Ben Stiller

“I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.”

Thinking Knows Shows Actors Roles Tvs Tv Shows

Author:Danny Strong

“As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.”

Thinking Way Jobs Lasts Form Actors Shapes Screws Going To Work

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Children Jobs Actors Strong Attitude Focus Healthy Helpful About Yourself Relaxed My Attitude Thinking About You Thinking About Yourself

Author:Imelda Staunton

“I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.”

Thinking Men Actors Men And Women Profession Respectful

Author:Nick Stahl

“To me, it's a little odd to ever think 'model into actor.' I modeled once. I was about as far from a decent model as you can possibly be. I did not enjoy the world at all. I fell in my stilettos quite a bit.”

Thinking World Littles Actors Bits Enjoy Models Odd Decent Stilettos

Author:Analeigh Tipton

“So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.”

People Thinking Men Want Firsts Actors Winning Careers Involved Tough Incredibles Holes Prize Rabbits Credibility Cameron Rabbit Holes Tough Man Prize Winning

Author:Miles Teller

“If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kind Made Actors Made It Standstill

Author:Jenna Ushkowitz

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