Actors

FOREFINGER, n. The finger commonly used in pointing out two malefactors.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

- Stanley Tucci Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

- Mary Steenburgen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.

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The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

- Gloria Stuart Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

- Todd Solondz Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75 of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

- Nicolas Roeg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.

- Tony Randall Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

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Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

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If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character.

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Actors I admire Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

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When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible

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It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

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It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.

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Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury.

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I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

- Daniel Day-Lewis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

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Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

- Steve Buscemi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar.

- Kenneth Branagh Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne.

- Joseph Bologna Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

- Sasha Alexander Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors.

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