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Quotes about acting and actors
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Jackson said, laughing. ''You're both up against a deadline. (Burke Chris)
In keeping with Miramax tradition, I was instructed to find the 'hottest young stars around' to cast in the movie. I got a list of two names: Michelle Monaghan and Casey Affleck. I was lucky enough to get them both. (Burke Chris)
I have done three makeup tests and I'm very, very happy with them. I am completely unrecognizable. (Burke Chris)
When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour. (Burke Chris)
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I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting. (Burke Chris)
I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child. (Burke Chris)
Unfortunately I went to a hotel in Krakow, and unfortunately, one night, there was a brawl in the bar because a horrible anti-Semitic remark was made to one of my fellow Israeli actors, one of my fellow actors who was an Israeli, sorry, and we were all extremely upset. I reacted rather violently, I'm afraid. (Burke Chris)
I try not to make it easy for myself. I try very hard to stay in the moment. I'm not an actor who psyches himself up for a take. I do the opposite. I actually try and reduce, reduce, reduce, reduce, reduce and get to what I call a flat line or a zero. (Burke Chris)
There's so much crap talked about acting. (Burke Chris)
I enjoy this status so much, feeling that I'm close to the heart of the tribe as an actor, a storyteller, a troubadour, but socially quite distant because I don't fit into any particular comfortable slot. (Burke Chris)
If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance. (Burke Chris)
Now, I had feelings of unworthiness before I walked onto the set, and I have feelings of pride and wonder and astonishment and disbelief when I see what we managed to achieve on the screen. (Burke Chris)
Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the 6 million ghosts -- with a wry smile on our faces, and a sense of accomplishment -- ''That's for you!'' [On shooting Schindler's List]. (Burke Chris)
Jerry is like the wizard behind the curtain. You never see him, but he's amazing at delegating responsibility to capable hands, and because of that, we've had a very good beginning for what I hope to be a long-running series. (Burke Chris)
As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful, ... I think Rupert is really adept at comedy; I think that's where his strength lies. (Burke Chris)
I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training. (Burke Chris)
I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble. (Burke Chris)
There are a lot of good actresses out there. (Burke Chris)
I have to go off by myself to keep a balance. I can't always be, "Bill the actor." I must stop and gain perspective so as not to confuse my role and my person. (Burke Chris)
De Niro agreed to come to the reading, but he hadn't committed yet. So he showed up, and about 30 people were there, and they really enjoyed it. (Burke Chris)
I tell you what I found is because you're right; I have had a chance to work with great actresses black and white. (Burke Chris)
I think when my character Robert came on the show there was more a sense of - from what I heard and what I felt, thank God we're finally being represented and then it's about how did he play the character, how is an African going to represent that character and is he going to do it right. (Burke Chris)
She'd rather find a black man if she can and her brother, played by Donald Faison, says you know, I got one for you. So he introduces me to his sister who is Kenya and we date for a while. That's all I say for now. (Burke Chris)
I could be the greatest entertainer in the world, and I'd still look at Van Cliburn and eat my heart out-and I don't even know if he plays well. (Burke Chris)
I realize that an actor's first job is to entertain, and I believe an actor has to say something. (Burke Chris)
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