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Quotes about acting and actors
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Because I'm a European actress, and I was going there for movies. But then I was coming back to Europe, to Italy. (Collins Stephen)
Jude Law is great, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslett, Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman. (Collins Stephen)
Acting for me is not the end of the road. (Collins Stephen)
“The image is interesting - he is reasonable. Actors must have different colors, powers and backgrounds. I'm sure a man is not just either tough or mild.” (Collins Stephen)
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“There is partial truth to that rumor. The president did say I would be good in the role, but when he said that, he didn't know I'd already been cast. His approval wasn't needed -- I'd already been selected by Steve Martin.” (Collins Stephen)
“You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.” (Collins Stephen)
“Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.” (Collins Stephen)
Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well. (Collins Stephen)
There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors. (Collins Stephen)
In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded. (Collins Stephen)
I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother! (Collins Stephen)
Jack Nicholson - I think that's the best thing he's ever done, it has the least Nicholsonian things in it. He really created a character different from himself. (Collins Stephen)
So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, 'Well, I could kill that chair!' (Collins Stephen)
When you've been an actress for 45 years as I have, it's a feast or famine life and I thought that maybe it was time now to have a steady gig! (Collins Stephen)
Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back. (Collins Stephen)
“All I know is, I don't do a lot of analysis. I know those words have to move me. I rely on the author. I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull. All I want 'em to do is learn the goddamn lines and don't bump into each other.” (Collins Stephen)
“I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.” (Collins Stephen)
I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen. (Collins Stephen)
I worked very hard to get, "Jacob's Ladder." At first they wanted Julia Roberts, Andie McDowell or Michelle Pheifer. (Collins Stephen)
It was a lot of pressure, but I loved working with Tim and I loved working with Adrian. (Collins Stephen)
Playing Leticia was a challenge. I've never played anyone who was, "tucked in." That's the best word, she keeps tucking herself in. So it was exhausting trying to sedate my own energy more than anything. (Collins Stephen)
“Acting in Treasure Quest, I was looking directly in the camera, and I had more fun because I chose to talk to my best friend. Sometimes it's easier working with people because you have the interaction. In the interactive game, you are assuming that people know what you are talking about without getting any response while you are [acting].” (Collins Stephen)
“[But it's the senior actors who remember what 1962 and bomb shelters were like.] We talked about (having a bomb shelter), ... My dad marked it off in the backyard, but we were in too wet an area so it became a water-filled fort.” (Collins Stephen)
“I balance things better and don't kill myself so much, but conflict makes me a more interesting actress to watch. The places I go to to pull emotions from, I think if you have a perfect, happy life, you just don't have those places. And I want those places. I'm proud of those places.” (Collins Stephen)
“To me it meant, just looking at it from a Maya point of view, it meant that Paul Miles is always moving laterally in his life. And she just wants him to take a couple of steps forward, you know?” (Collins Stephen)
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