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Quotes about acting and actors
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The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title. (Cusack Cyril)
People say that Hedda is the Hamlet of women actors but for me it's Nora with her thrilling, chilling lines. (Cusack Cyril)
Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress. (Cusack Cyril)
“When my agents said I had been approached to play the president on this show, I said, `So do I have to read it first or will you just say yes now?' For Thelma to be the president is just delightful. It's certainly the role with the most gravitas that I've had to play. I love the way Mackenzie is in the world, how she deals with people, how straight she is and how intelligent and confident she is. It's a pleasure.” (Cusack Cyril)
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“It made perfect sense to me that I would play this part, ... I have always been interested in roles that are gonna be challenging for me - but also, characters that other women can identify with.” (Cusack Cyril)
“[Another time, it was the stars of the movie who spoiled the ending for me. I had missed a chance to see] Thelma and Louise ... You know, Susan, maybe we should do a sequel to 'Thelma and Louise.' ” (Cusack Cyril)
“It's certainly the role with the most gravitas that I've had to play,” (Cusack Cyril)
“but I have to appreciate that actors have it a lot easier than other people who have to work these kinds of hours -- even the actual president.” (Cusack Cyril)
“It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.” (Cusack Cyril)
“All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.” (Cusack Cyril)
“Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.” (Cusack Cyril)
“I would feel very bad if she didn't like the way I played her. I certainly don't want to stick a knife in her - especially now that I'm a dame, and I might have that taken away from me.” (Cusack Cyril)
“Sometimes being real means being unsympathetic, ... I don't worry too much about being liked. That's not my first priority. I'd rather play someone people might identify with. If I sign on to do something I believe in, I'm trying to play what the writer wrote. And I hope that the audience will understand where the character is coming from.” (Cusack Cyril)
“I do feel I get called to troubleshoot parts that could be so unsympathetic, ... I don't mind that. To me, they seem like juicy roles. They are characters in conflict, but they are not despicable. I'd rather be this kind of wife than a woman wringing her hands at home saying, 'When is he coming back?'” (Cusack Cyril)
A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were. (Cusack Cyril)
After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors. (Cusack Cyril)
Also it was the right moment as the Bond era was changing - now we have Halle Berry, an Oscar winner, playing a Bond girl. (Cusack Cyril)
I'd read articles about actresses who made it sound so easy to balance it all. I finally realized they were full-of-it! (Cusack Cyril)
I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to. (Cusack Cyril)
I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me. (Cusack Cyril)
There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed. (Cusack Cyril)
I ask questions. I'm not pontificating. I'm not promoting any one agenda, which I think is wrong, since I'm an actress. (Cusack Cyril)
I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move. (Cusack Cyril)
I hear of actresses who have stage fright, but I say, Let me start! Then I can fix anything. (Cusack Cyril)
I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones. (Cusack Cyril)
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