Actor Quotes (page 76)

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• star
• typed
• starred

There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type. Natalie Wood

• time
• five
• am

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times. Judy Holliday

• kids
• today
• look

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad. Evan Rachel Wood

• wonderful
• work
• consistency

I didn't set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me for 16 years now and its wonderful for an actor to work consistently. There seems to be an insatiable audience for this type of film. Peter Cushing

• movie
• star
• walking

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

• evening
• greatness
• believe

I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great. Olivier Martinez

• expectation
• thinking
• people

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker. Olivier Martinez

• rejection
• great
• financial

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity. Douglas Wood

• work
• saying
• theatre

Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity. William Petersen

• change
• good
• about myself

If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor. William Petersen

• good
• people
• chemistry

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. John Cusack

• personality
• personal
• identities

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity. Cyril Cusack

• generosity
• performed
• other

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors. Cyril Cusack

• moving
• character
• play

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move. Tony Curtis

• thankful
• thanks
• thank god

What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do. Steve Martin