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Quotes about acting and actors
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An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego. (Burke Chris)
An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents. (Burke Chris)
We're in a time right now where there are so many pretty boy movies and TV shows out, that most of the actors that are in their late 20's are coming from those beefcake TV roles and they just don't have the chops. (Burke Chris)
There are only two people, out of all the actors that I've worked with, who I can say I'm really close friends with. I have lots of acquaintances, but only two of them are real friends. You're just part of the group he has to shake hands with. It's part of the myth that we're all phoning each other and sharing deep secrets, private things. (Burke Chris)
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There's a whole army of people looking after you to make sure that you're not in any kind of danger. I mean, even when you're up swinging off a wire, there's people there checking everything. Everything is double checked and triple checked before you go anywhere near it. I'm not one of those actors who gets any pleasure out of doing their own stunts. (Burke Chris)
I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show where Carol Houston, an actress on 'Matlock' sang 'It Is Well With My Soul' accompanied by a choir. Boy, that was powerful. (Burke Chris)
I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen. (Burke Chris)
Blank face is fine.the computer works faster than the brain,don't forget.The art of acting is not to act.Once you show them more,what you show them,in fact is bad acting. (Burke Chris)
I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it. (Burke Chris)
I said, 'I can't play Nixon. I'm not an American. (Burke Chris)
The World's Fastest Indian? Oh, that's not for me. I've done enough with that role. (Burke Chris)
Then I did another play there with Stephen Tobolowsky, who's a really fine actor and director, called Blue Silence. I played a street tough guy. (Burke Chris)
In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing. (Burke Chris)
Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere. (Burke Chris)
Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews. (Burke Chris)
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo? (Burke Chris)
If I stepped out of my character for even a moment, the seething menace of the terrible Count Dracula was gone, and my hold on the audience lost its force. (Burke Chris)
In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression. (Burke Chris)
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom. (Burke Chris)
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. (Burke Chris)
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me. (Burke Chris)
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge. (Burke Chris)
Sometimes it's Britney Spears and sometimes it's Carrie Fisher. I can't tell if I've got a Lolita complex or an Oedipus complex. (Burke Chris)
If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call. (Burke Chris)
[Smith couldn't resist elaborating:] It would be the most fictional role-playing ever. I'm no Affleck, which is bad in the bedroom, but good professionally. It's good not to be Ben Affleck professionally, because then I don't have to explain 'Gigli' ... for the next ten years. (Burke Chris)
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