Quotes with actors

  • Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.
  • When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal. A lot of times you are showing up on set, and you've never been to the place; you've never met the other actors you're working with.
  • Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.
  • Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
  • We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.
  • I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
  • Many plays, are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
  • The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.
  • I have no advice to give to young actors. To young, struggling actresses, my advice is to keep struggling. If you struggle long enough, you will never get in trouble and if you never get in trouble, you will never be much of an actress.
  • When I decided I wanted to go to drama school, I realized that a lot of the actors whose careers I really admire and whose work I really admire were English and English trained. I felt there was a real vocational feel to work in the U.K.
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  • Colin Wilson A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
    Colin Wilson
    British writer (1931 - 2013)
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  • Jimmy Cannon England produces the best fat actors.
    Jimmy Cannon
    American sportswriter (1909 - 1973)
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  • Brian Moore There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.
    Brian Moore
    British writer and screenwiter (1921 - 1999)
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  • Michael Wilding You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.
    Michael Wilding
    British actor (1912 - 1979)
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  • Byron Howard 'Zootopia' features such a large and diverse range of characters - one of our biggest casts ever for a Disney Animation film. We needed talented actors who could help bring these animals to life.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bob Hoskins Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.
    Bob Hoskins
    English actor (1942 - 2014)
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  • Patrick Kavanagh Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of ''artistic'' expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Gail Godwin Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.
    Gail Godwin
    American novelist and short story writer (1937 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Actors create a fantastic lifestyle thinking they're going to be able to maintain it. Then they can't get work or have to start taking work that doesn't suit them.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Henry Miller Actors die so loud.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Donald Sinden Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
    Donald Sinden
     
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  • Chevy Chase Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
    Chevy Chase
     
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  • Bela Lugosi Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Bruce Campbell Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.
    Bruce Campbell
    American actor, writer and director (1958 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson Actors will always tell you it's more fun playing bad guys. A lot of the time, it's criminals who are the people who don't care. There's something extraordinarily seductive about the guy who doesn't care, and to play that guy is terribly empowering, because you don't have to worry about the consequences of your actions.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Bruce Davison Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Aaron Stanford Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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  • William Holden All actors are whores. We sell our bodies to the highest bidder.
    William Holden
    American actor (1918 - 1981)
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  • Carlton Cuse As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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