Actors

Jennifer Lawrence Actress

Actors

"There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting."

Firsts Actors Listening

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Jeremy London Actor

Actors

"Most of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do."

Actors My Friends Impressed

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Jillian Bach Actress

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"We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that."

Actors Film Television

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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian

Actors

"There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass."

Two Talking Actors

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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian

Actors

"I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it."

Want Needs Actors

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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian

Actors

"But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself."

Believe Actors Refuse

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Jo Brand Comedian, Writer

Actors

"I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people."

People Actors Good Actors

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Joan Allen Actress

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"I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that."

Thinking Character Actors

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Joe Dante Film Director

Actors

"I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly."

Mean Kids Actors

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Actors

"An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor."

Actors Acting Lessons

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John Hughes Filmmaker

Actors

"I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me."

Actors Half I Like You

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John Lloyd Young Actor, Singer

Actors

"I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer."

Actors Singing Dialect

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John Oliver Comedian

Actors

"I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson."

Trying Actors Authority

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Johnny Depp Actor, Producer

Actors

"I can't tell my self that I'm a serious actor. But I'm serious person."

Self Actors Serious Person

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Jonah Hill Actor, Producer, Director

Actors

"Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better actor and writer?"

Writing Actors Acting

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Jonah Hill Actor, Producer, Director

Actors

"I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life."

Stars Actors Filmmaker

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Jonah Hill Actor, Producer, Director

Actors

"As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama."

Writing Actors Drama

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Jonah Hill Actor, Producer, Director

Actors

"I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian."

Actors Comedian

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Joyce DeWitt Actress

Actors

"Every once in a while in an actor's life, a cast comes together."

Together Actors Casts

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Judd Nelson Actor

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"My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors"

Actors Close Friends Canine

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