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It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then s...
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They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!
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I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because ...
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DAVID BAILEY![]()
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Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive peo...
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The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run...
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VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their ga...
GARY SINISE I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you&...
JACK MCCOLLOUGH As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it&...
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability...
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CARY FUKUNAGA Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Di...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between acto...
ZACH WOODS As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, yo...
KARINE VANASSE The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.
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BEN SCHNETZER I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like act...
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Like, on the 'Parks And Rec' set, I still feel like I'm a guest star. Being a fan of the...
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It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE
OWEN WILSON We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components toge...
LORRAINE TOUSSAINT
Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure. CLINT EASTWOOD
Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you ha... LOUIS C. K.
I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they&#... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons fro... ALAN ALDA There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai res...
FIONN WHITEHEAD
I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically... PETER YORK I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in...
ADRIAN LYNE You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It re...
AGNES BRUCKNER I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themse...
ALEX KINGSTON I've found a lot of the thinking in America is that a lot of people become actors to become famo...
NOLAN NORTH
In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw fr... ANDY SERKIS
When you have really good writing, you're compelled by the actors who are in it, and you may thi... DAVID COSTABILE I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between t...
LUSIA STRUS You're not a star until you love yourself. Directors, yeah, they've got to love their own ph...
SHEKHAR KAPUR
So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they'... HELEN MCCRORY
I'm a dramatist, so I really always wrote and directed at the same time because when I wrote som... ADRIANA TRIGIANI
My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dra... JONAH HILL Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you...
KYLE MACLACHLAN
As soon as you get two actors in a room and they're locking eyes, they're doing a scene. MARTIN FREEMAN You always want to make sure that you're not the weak link. You're surrounded by really tale...
DREW SEELEY You're always aware that only eight per cent of actors are in work at one time, so you've go...
BEN HARDY
I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressin... JOHN MALKOVICH
Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of... MIKE MILLS
My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere. DYLAN MCDERMOTT
When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to y... GABRIEL BYRNE
I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about ha... JOHN HUGHES I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terribl...
EDDIE MARSAN
I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They... CAMERON MATHISON Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw...
EDOARDO PONTI Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so...
EDWARD HERRMANN The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
ABEL FERRARA
You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the t... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic co...
ALEXANDER PAYNE A lot of actors try to sabotage other actors, and that's sad because then you're never going...
ERICA DURANCE
The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they'... IAN MCKELLEN
Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. Yo... ANSEL ELGORT Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They'r...
MATTHEW LILLARD The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight...
TAMMY BLANCHARD
It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then s... RACHEL BROSNAHAN There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one me...
LORETTA DEVINE There are so many stage actors on TV but you wouldn't know they were stage actors. And film and ...
MATTHEW MORRISON
Good actors are always looking for props. They're looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier... PETER FALK
I don't really get off on the anonymous love of strangers, which I think a lot of actors do. The... JOHN C. REILLY There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors...
HARRY LLOYD
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. MINNIE MADDERN FISKE
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. ETHEL BARRYMORE
You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think ... DARREN ARONOFSKY
The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material t... JAMES GRAY You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, ...
OWEN WILSON
I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocrac... COLIN FIRTH
Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they'... KENNETH BRANAGH Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of...
XAVIER SAMUEL A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.
IZABELLA SCORUPCO What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sin...
ZELJKO IVANEK I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
ELI WALLACH
Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies. ROBERT ANTON WILSON I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or act...
D. A. PENNEBAKER
Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they rea... MOBY Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount...
CAMPBELL SCOTT Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.
SAMI GAYLE
There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones. IAN MCSHANE Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who a...
CAMPBELL SCOTT
I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in th... BLYTHE DANNER
There are just some really beautiful people in the world. When you're walking down the street, o... MARY-KATE OLSEN
Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the p... RUBEN BLADES
They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing! ALAN CLARK
It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you... NATALIE PORTMAN In TV, sometimes you get lost in the fog of the scene, and when you're working with such good ac...
ADRIANO GIANNINI
I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because ... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the ch... GUS VAN SANT Adult actors are really childish, and that's nice to be around when you're a kid. So the big...
JACK DAVENPORT
Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if ... DAVID BAILEY
I follow Elle Fanning's career. I really like to follow actors who are a similar age to me. Just... MAISIE WILLIAMS
I always hated when the studios just kind of said that anybody can act. You look at people like Spen... BOB NEWHART My advice to actors? To successful actors, it's, 'sock it away,' and unsuccessful actors...
STEPHEN LANG We had always insisted on working with actors because they do what they're told. You can make actors...
RAY GALTON
Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive peo... PARK CHAN-WOOK When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real...
MARIEL HEMINGWAY The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional
RICHARD BURTON Actors are almost conditioned to get their director's approval. 'I just did my song and danc...
ERIC JOHNSON
The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run... EDDIE REDMAYNE I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to f...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their ga...
GARY SINISE I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you&...
JACK MCCOLLOUGH As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it&...
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability...
ADAM RAPP On 'Sin Nombre,' Adriano Goldman and I improvised a lot of things on-site. We were working w...
CARY FUKUNAGA Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Di...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between acto...
ZACH WOODS As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, yo...
KARINE VANASSE The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.
RICHARD BURTON
When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal... BEN SCHNETZER I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like act...
BRYAN FULLER
Like, on the 'Parks And Rec' set, I still feel like I'm a guest star. Being a fan of the... ADAM SCOTT My parents wanted to be actors. They tried for years but didn't get anywhere. Then Mum got pregn...
HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the ac...
CARLTON CUSE I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitioni...
TAMSIN EGERTON
It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching... DANIEL RADCLIFFE
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