Actors

Andy Garcia Actor, Director

Actors

"If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director."

Giving Actors Directors

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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright

Actors

"By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few."

Knows Actors Know How

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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper

Actors

"A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are."

Actors Rapper True To Yourself

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

Actors

"How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on."

Thinking Actors Acting

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer

Actors

"I've always had an easy time directing actors because I always hire ones that are great before I get my hands on them."

Hands Actors Easy

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Tasha Smith Actress

Actors

"That's just part of the blessing of being an actor: you get to learn so many things about life."

Actors Blessing

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Terence Lewis Choreographer

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"I want to become actor not because I want money and become more famous. No I don't want that. It is not that l want stardom, I want to contribute to good cinema."

Want Actors Cinema

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Randy Harrison Actor

Actors

"It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something."

Thinking Actors Boys

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Viola Davis Actress, Producer

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"I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable."

Actors Deals Miserable

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Scarlett Johansson Actress

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"Every actor has a production company already. It's just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own production company."

Matter Actors Labels

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Tom Ford Fashion Designer

Actors

"When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor."

Kids Actors Eternal Sunshine

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Shelley Hennig Actress

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"Everybody wants to be a series regular. It's something that a lot of actors would kill to have."

Want Actors Series

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Simone Elkeles Author

Actors

"We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are."

People Thinking Actors

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Sofia Coppola Filmmaker

Actors

"I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming."

Want Trying Actors

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Stephen King Author

Actors

"But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make worlds that never were, populate them with people who never existed, and then invite us to join them in their fantasies. And we do it, don't we? Yes. We PAY to do it."

People Artist Actors

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Stephen King Author

Actors

"Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous."

Actors Teenage Jars

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Robert Shaw Conductor, Musician

Actors

"I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin."

Men Character Actors

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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor

Actors

"How can a president not be an actor?"

Actors President Politics

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Sylvester Stallone Actor, Filmmaker

Actors

"Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge."

Character Guy Actors

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Larenz Tate Actor

Actors

"As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on."

Actors Roles Pieces

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