Actors

Leonardo DiCaprio Actor, Producer, Environmental Activist

Actors

"If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do."

Character Stories Actors

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John Ford Film Director

Actors

"It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor."

Actors Easier Cowboy

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Meryl Streep Actress, Producer

Actors

"Being an actor lets me be a million different things."

Different Actors Let Me

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Michelangelo Antonioni Film Director, Screenwriter

Actors

"I simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship that begins to exist between his body and the other things in the scene."

Actors Attitude Body

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Michelangelo Antonioni Film Director, Screenwriter

Actors

"If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner."

Trying Actors Intellectual

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Denzel Washington Actor, Director

Actors

"As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?"

Play Guy Actors

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Billy Campbell Actor

Actors

"I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call indicating, when you twirl your mustache."

Actors Acting Mustache

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Billy Wilder Film Director, Screenwriter

Actors

"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."

Actors Doors Entering

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Alfred Hitchcock Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors

"Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life."

Actors Whole Life Grants

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Alfred Hitchcock Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors

"Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock"

Actors Novelists Casting

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Andy Garcia Actor, Director

Actors

"Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing."

Writing Actors Scripts

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer

Actors

"The less I speak to the actors, the better. And I always hire great people, and I don't want to impose my pre-conceived notions on them. They know how to play it."

People Play Actors

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Shelley Berman Comedian, Actor

Actors

"I was an actor before becoming a comedian."

Actors Becoming Comedian

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Robin Williams Actor, Comedian

Actors

"I want to do a movie, but it has to be the right movie, whether it's independent or a studio movie. I'm much more open to being a supporting actor. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it."

Age Actors Independent

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Robin Wright Actress, Director, Producer

Actors

"I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level."

Actors Acting Levels

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Stella Adler Actress, Director

Actors

"The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement."

Actors Achievement Training

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Oscar Isaac Actor

Actors

"There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work."

Actors Dying Reason Why

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Katharine Hepburn Actress

Actors

"Acting is the perfect idiot's profession."

Actors Perfect Acting

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Gene Wilder Actor, comedian

Actors

"I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor."

Want Real Actors

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Marilyn Monroe Actress, Model

Actors

"You're always running into people's unconscious."

People Running Actors

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