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“With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'”

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Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“A lot of the times the first take was the best, because the actors are not analyzing themselves as much; they just do it. I believe in happy accidents and I'm not necessarily into actors getting the dialogue exactly as I wrote it; I'm much more into them understanding the motivations and have it come out in a natural way, and maybe catch something that I didn't expect.”

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Author:Storm Saulter

“What happened is I was going to college in 1950. L. A. City College. A guy I knew was going to an acting class on Thursday nights. He started telling me about all the good-lookin' chicks and said, "Why don't you go with me?" So I probably had some motivation beyond thoughts of being an actor. And sure enough, he was right. There were a lot of girls and not many guys. I said, "Yeah, they need me here." I wound up at Universal as a contract player.”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

“There's not a lot of talking between actors - either between actors or between actors and directors. People think that they sit in rooms and talk about psychology and motivations. I don't think that happens much.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.”

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Book:Black Hornet

Source: Black Hornet

“It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.”

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Book:The Story of the Malakand Field Force

Source: The Story of the Malakand Field Force

“You ask my advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.”

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Author:Noel Coward

“It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.”

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Author:Cate Blanchett