Actors

Dorothy Parker Poet, Writer, Critic

Actors

"She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B."

Running Actors Acting

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Denzel Washington Actor, Director

Actors

"I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things."

Trying Actors Hard Work

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Al Pacino Actor, Filmmaker

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"I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it."

Character Play Actors

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Burt Reynolds Actor

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"All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all."

Actors Land Asking

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Alice Miller Psychologist, Author

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"The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity."

Children Needs Actors

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Amy Hill Actress

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"They're amazing, these actors who have worked on soaps for years and years and years. They know what they're doing. They don't hold you word-for-word on every line and you can fudge it a little, but they know what they're saying and they repeat it every time they come on."

Years Actors Fudge

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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper

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"For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie."

People Actors Movie

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Thornton Wilder Playwright, Novelist, Poet

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"Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in."

Play Actors Checks

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Sebastian Bach Composer

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"Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor."

Actors Said Theatre

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Ryan Reynolds Actor

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"I learned early on to abandon all those preconceived notions you have about other actors and it's served me really well. I usually just try to empty my mind of that. I love meeting actors and I love working with actors."

Trying Mind Actors

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Oliver Stone Filmmaker, Screenwriter

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"There's an electrical thing about movies."

Actors Movie Gambling

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Fiona Shaw Actress

Actors

"The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor."

Actors Energy Enormous

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Katharine Hepburn Actress

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"Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life."

Two Pain Actors

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George A. Romero Filmmaker

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"As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!"

Doe Actors Genre

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Marlene Dietrich Actress, Singer

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"The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime"

Men Actors Film

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Jonny Lee Miller Actor

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"The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you."

Actors Roles Satisfaction

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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet

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"All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you."

Want Actors Seducing

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Judd Nelson Actor

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"I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will."

Eye Actors Eggs

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Jules Renard Writer

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"Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent."

Actors Acting Talent

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Jeffrey Wright Actor

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"I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops."

Actors Generations Theater

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