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Quotes about acting and actors
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“I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.” (Burke Chris)
“My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me.” (Burke Chris)
When I met De Niro, it was like Wow! (Burke Chris)
To me acting originally became an extension of game playing. Childhood games, and that kinda grew into something else. As I've got older it's changed and it's moved more towards self-understanding about how other people escape into other worlds. It's become me trying to open doors into other people. (Burke Chris)
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Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning. (Burke Chris)
Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene. (Burke Chris)
I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday. (Burke Chris)
Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man. (Burke Chris)
An actor's life particularly is what they lived and how they've osmosized what they've lived into the work and tried to say something. (Burke Chris)
“You couldn't have designed a more perfect training ground for young actors, with a sort of sensei (mentor) like with Francis, ... He just knew how to play each of us like a violin.” (Burke Chris)
“You couldn't have designed a more perfect training ground for young actors, with a sort of sensei (mentor) like with Francis. He just knew how to play each of us like a violin.” (Burke Chris)
It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time. (Burke Chris)
I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors. (Burke Chris)
I'm a big Adam Sandler fan. (Burke Chris)
I've played a baby panda bear to a gorilla to an alien, but Austin Powers 2 is definitely my biggest role ever. Hopefully, it's not my last! (Burke Chris)
Just being able to work with Mike Myers and everybody in the whole cast was a great experience. It was like a big party all the time. (Burke Chris)
Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be? (Burke Chris)
Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone. (Burke Chris)
“I'm limited, so, I kind of know where I fit as an actress. I kind of get it now, finally, after all of these years of trying to be a dramatic actress. I kind of think that'd I'd like to continue dealing with these things in a funny, lighter vein, but also truthful and honest.” (Burke Chris)
I had to smoke for a role when I was 15, and it kind of stuck. I made all these plans to quit this year, but then I got a role in a De Niro movie, and I smoke in that. (Burke Chris)
I loved wearing the catsuits; it was so cool! And with the actors who came in for cameos! It was like, who's coming today? It was really exciting! (Burke Chris)
I play the girlfriend of Robert DeNiro's son. I was totally star struck. He's so talented. (Burke Chris)
I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that. (Burke Chris)
“[Who will play Johnny?] Keanu Reeves is still on to do it, ... I think he'll be great.” (Burke Chris)
“I played a girl. There's really nothing controversial about her. She's just fine. She has to be fine in order to make Sarah Jessica's character pop, ... I say I just play a white girl in that movie.” (Burke Chris)
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