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“To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.”

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Author:Rupert Sanders

“I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.”

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Author:Kaya Scodelario

“It's tricky playing people that you don't like and finding a way to empathise with them. It's challenging and very exciting for an actor.”

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Author:Carey Mulligan

“I think actors make the mistake of finding their little niche in the business and once they try to do something a little darker, boom, they get slapped across the face for it, so they go back to what they did before.”

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Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I do my research. And I get a clear understanding of what the language is. It is a tremendous process I have to go through as I am sure all actors do, finding the gems hidden in his language.”

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Author:Ruben Santiago-Hudson

“As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.”

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Author:Taylor Schilling

“So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.”

Source: The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia

“I think I have a tendency to overwork things. I have a hard time finding that sweet spot that most actors seem to be able to hit where they're doing the exact right amount of work, not overthinking, not underdoing it. I seem to either overdo it or underdo it.”

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Author:Paul Giamatti

“The only boring part of it is finding the fact that got you from point A to point B. Most actors, if they're being honest, are not going to say that that's the most stimulating acting work they've ever done. But the dynamics of staring into the face of evil and it looking back at you, and seeing yourself in that or not, is interesting.”

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Author:Benjamin McKenzie

“The process of finding an actor is always difficult and there's always so many variables that come into play. Also, actors sometimes carry baggage, fans associate actors with certain parts.”

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Author:Franck Khalfoun

“You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to, they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.”

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Author:Julianne Moore

“As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I'm looking at magazines and I'm reading comics, and I'm asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.”

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Author:Zoe Saldana

“You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it.”

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Author:Morten Tyldum

“I like the little chess match of how people move through space. I'm not comparing myself to Michelangelo with this analogy, but he said when he sculpts it's like finding the sculpture within. It feels that way when you are with actors, too. There's a natural way to do this with a natural language that flows and feels like real people talking. And you've just got to find it. So I enjoy that part of the process.”

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Author:Timothy Miller

“More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.”

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Author:Jeffrey Dean Morgan

“I am a slave to fashion. I love to get into what's hot and current when I dress myself or somebody else. Usually, it's someone else because I'm constantly working on finding the best looks for actors.”

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Author:Ruth E. Carter

“I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.”

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Author:Amanda Schull

“When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.”

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Author:James Wan

“Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.”

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Author:Mike Mills

“Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.”

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Author:Gary Oldman

“As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.”

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Author:Amanda Peet

“Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.”

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Author:Jason Reitman

“Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.”

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Author:Ryan Reynolds

“Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.”

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Author:Meryl Streep