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“My film school is making movies. But, I do think that being an actor has served me immensely, as both a writer and director, in terms of knowing what is playable and what will be fun to play, for actors, and also how to communicate to actors on set, and not screw them up and get them in their head.”

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Author:Josh Radnor

“For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.”

Wells Play Film Actors

Author:Emma Watson

“I never pick a film based on the genre; I choose the characters I play. I will think it through thoroughly - whether I am the best person to play the character, able to excel in it and match with the other characters.”

Thinking Persons Play Character Able Film Picks Genre Best Person I Am The Best

Author:Rain

“The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic.”

Play Film Process

Author:Kevin Spacey

“I did a little film called Nina, a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to Nina Simone. Zoe Saldana plays Nina.”

Littles Play Film Girl Roles Nurse Nina Small Roles

Author:Alaina Huffman

“In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery comedies, horror and thrillers, teen movies and love-stories. All these and more will be a positive step towards the future of Native Americans in the world and film industry; an industry that that offers us not only the chance to play the parts of heroes, love interests and warriors, but also of villains, dorks and dangerous, brokenhearted products of circumstance.”

“It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.”

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Author:Ryan Gosling

“Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.”

Has Beens Play Character Film Actors Strong Chance Middle Tvs India Series South East Middle East Hispanic Tv Series

Author:Madhur Mittal

“In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.”

Play Film Guy Roles Good Times Bad Guys Charlie

Author:Bob Gunton

“I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.”

Persons Long Has Beens Book Play Film Burning This Day Opera Biographies Impatience Oratory

Book:More Memories

Source: More Memories

“I never write a play with an eye to film.”

Writing Play Eye Film

Author:Neil Simon

“Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I broke my leg at the age of ten, but it is never the same thing which comes to mind when I think about it. My memory of this event has never been, in reality, anything except the memory of my last memory of that event. This is why I use the image of a palimpsest - something written over something partially erased - that is what memory is for me. It's not a film you play back in exactly the same way. It's like theater, with characters who appear from time to time.”

Thinking Way Mind Mean I Can Play Character Use Reality Age Lasts Film Memories Written Events Strange Thousand Ten Theater Legs Broke Palimpsest

Author:Gore Vidal

“I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but we both were coming out of a sketch comedy background, so when we pitch a movie, we play every character in the film. You act it out, you perform it - you do a 10-minute performance of the movie.”

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Author:Thomas Lennon

“I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, "Oh, we should film this." As opposed to have to belt it out of ourselves in a theater auditorium.”

Thinking Should Play Film Actors Theater Belts Auditoriums

Author:Clive Owen

“I enjoy doing martial arts films, but I like the straight stuff, too. I'd like to go back and do some Shakespeare, and maybe knock out a play or two. It's all about keeping balance.”

Art Two Play Film Stuff Enjoy Balance Martial Arts Art Films

Author:Thomas Ian Griffith

“I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears...”

Done Play Would Be Film Nice Tears Victim Fake Being Nice

Author:Rachel Hurd-Wood

“When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.”

People World Way Firsts Play Beautiful Film Found Exposed Frank Portraits Disturbing Bergman

Author:Wallace Shawn

“I want the chance to play very different characters, and I've always wanted to do more films.”

Want Different Play Character Wanted Film Chance Different Characters

Author:Joanne Froggatt

“Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.”

Wells States Play Film Scripts British British Film

Author:Laura Carmichael

“There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.”

People Play Film Perfect Really Happy Happy People Perfect Life

Author:Anna Paquin

“I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'”

Writing Firsts Heart Littles Play Film Acting Auditions

Author:Jonah Hill

“I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people's respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people's collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends.”

People Thinking Trying Play Film Games Winning Special Opening Collections Fund Realising Weekend Special Places Piracy

Author:Riz Ahmed

“I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether its a man or a woman.”

Thinking Men Hard Play Film Hard Times

Author:B. D. Wong

“I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get together and play.”

Play Together Film Term Watches Band Guitar Mates Get Together

Author:Stephen Mangan

“I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.”

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Author:Richard Schiff

“I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like 'Butter' to show that. And it's perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don't find the right thing.”

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Author:Ashley Greene

“The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.”

Men Firsts Art Matter Play Film Form Capable Tricks Demonstrating

Book:Illuminations

Source: Illuminations

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