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“The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.”

Giving Seems Actors Depends Performances

Author:Bela Lugosi

“When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.”

Giving Actors Directors Ego Scared Driven Input

Author:Michael Pitt

“As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.”

Giving Actors Personal Life

Author:Teresa Palmer

“I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.”

Giving Mother Actors Four Week Summer Daughter Silly Nine Movie Turned Down Vancouver Silly Movie

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“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.”

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Author:Imelda Staunton

“One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.”

Giving Trying Actors Interesting Directors Performers Observers Small Things Really Interesting

Author:Janet Suzman

“The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.”

Giving Writing Long Play Actors Chance Pieces Long Time Give Me Comic Dramatic Facets

Author:Linda Lavin

“I love actors and I feel like, if you usually allow people some say, most people, if they start to feel comfortable, they're going to have a voice. If they feel heard, then they will give back 10 times as much to you.”

People Ifs Giving Feels Actors Voice Heard Comfortable Giving Back

Author:Vince Vaughn

“If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.”

Ifs Giving Would Be Actors Loses Cases Successful Security Movie Being Successful

Author:Ang Lee

“I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about the business. She married my stepdad when I was about four, and he had been an actor. Because I was a really smiley kid and could read, which is something they're always looking for, she just decided to give it a shot.”

Giving Kids Actors Four Stage Mom Married Shots Decided My Mom Modeling Smiley Stepdads

Author:Charlotte Arnold

“I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.”

People Giving Actors Advice Stage Specialty

Author:Vagit Alekperov

“I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.”

Thinking Giving Mean Character Actors Behinds Attention Creating Standing Overcoming Terror Convinced Phrases Mask Standing There

Author:Stephen Dillane

“A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you’re doing a sitcom, people don’t give you a lot of credit, because you’ve got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it’s successful.”

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Author:Mike O'Malley

“Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.”

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Author:Tarsem Singh

“I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving marks to the actors I like to give marks to the camera.”

Giving Actors Steps Mark Cameras Block Precise

Author:Jose Padilha

“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

“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 have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.”

Inspirational Giving Heart Soul Motivational Actors Acting Directors Heart And Soul

Author:Ava Gardner

“Theatre gives you wings as an actor.”

Giving Actors Wings Theatre

Author:Randeep Hooda

“A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Giving Trying Law Actors Acting Plans Degrees Work Out Practicals Movie Filmmaking Reverse

Author:Brit Marling