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You gotta understand, there weren't a whole lot of roles for Hispanics in the Eighties, so comedy was really the way I could really feed myself and eventually feed my family. I was an actor who learned to be a comic, and it's cool to come back and get back into acting - move forward in the direction I started out to do in the beginning.
Steven Michael Quezada / Actor
Cool
Acting
Comedy
Comic
Actor
Beginning
Feed
Direction
Eighties
Forward
Gotta
Hispanics
In The Beginning
Learned
Move Forward
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Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too' and he said, 'Oh really?' And I said, 'I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.' He didn't take the joke well, he didn't laugh and didn't think it was funny - I thought it was funny. It's all the same to me.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Funny
Acting
Chicago
Elementary School
Said
School
Funny Me Laugh
Actor
Funny Me School
Oh
Elementary
Laugh
Shakespeare
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Mum worked as a secretary for Orson Welles for what sounded like a very miserable year. Her brother was the actor Jeremy Brett, who became famous for playing Sherlock Holmes. He was an absolutely lovely man. Very exciting and glamorous, he'd always make me feel amazing and full of confidence, like I'd picked the right thing to do in life.
Martin Clunes / Actor
Confidence
Amazing
Famous
Brother
Exciting
Glamorous
Holmes
Lovely
Miserable
Mum
Right Thing
Secretary
Life Amazing Always
Absolutely
Actor
Became
Year
Full
Her
Jeremy
Picked
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
The Right Thing
Welles
Worked
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I have no hang-ups in life. I don't care about groups and camps. I have been brought up with certain values and ethics. I have never been egoistic about my stardom and lineage. I don't have any qualms about breaking the ice with my colleagues. I can walk up to any actor and greet him, irrespective of what kind of equation I share with him.
Abhishek Bachchan / Film Actor
Camps
Care
Certain
Colleagues
Don't Care
Ethics
Ice
Lineage
Qualms
Qualms About
Share
Stardom
Actor
Breaking
Brought
Equation
Greet
Walk
Him
Irrespective
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I'm an actor. The fact that I'm involved in Jigsaw, I don't approach Jigsaw any differently than I approached The Nordic in 'The Firm' or FBI Agent Stokes in 'Mississippi Burning.' It's the same deal. It's just that the effect is sometimes different. So I say, people ask me, 'How does it feel to be a horror icon?' I'm thrilled. It's great.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Approach
Burning
Fbi
Firm
Horror
Involved
Jigsaw
Mississippi
Ask
Great Me People
Actor
Agent
Deal
Effect
Fact
Icon
Thrilled
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I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can.
John Malkovich / Actor
New York
Careers
Desperate
Rate
Together
Towns
Unhappy
Actor
Together Always People
Correct
Working
Fact
Few
Few People
Maybe
Progressing
York
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Every time I talk about 'The Shield' I kind of talk about it from three perspectives, as if I'm three people, because I'm a fan of the show. I'm in love with all the other characters and their journeys and their work. But then, as an actor, I love getting this kind of rich material and having to do it. As my character, did my journey finish?
Benito Martinez /
Journey
My Journey
Rich
Love Time Work
Actor
Fan
Every Time
Love Work Time
Finish
Material
Perspectives
Shield
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I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen and I've been like, Wow, that was a really great performance. Because there are a lot of elements with film. It's not like stage. It's not a kind of performance art anymore; it's a highly tuned kind of collaboration - a symphony.
Vincent Kartheiser / Actor
Art
Collaboration
Elements
Film
Performance Art
Stage
Symphony
Art Work Great
Actor
Anymore
Seen
Work Art Great
Highly
Performance
Screen
Tuned
Worked
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
Samira Wiley / Actress
Girl
Black
Character
Portrayal
Responsibility
Television
Young
Job
Looking
Writer
Actor
Everyone
Try
Whatever
Three-Dimensional
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When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.
James Franco / Actor
Appreciated
Cameras
Helping
Improvising
Little Bit
Toes
Tvs
Tv
Actor
Movies Me Doing
Quite
Movies Me Way
Bit
Nobody
Camera
Freaks
Geeks
Improvise
Trip
Worked
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Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.
Dan Stevens / Actor
Business
Bells
Broadway
Calling
Chapel
Enthusiastic
Every Night
Half
Lines
Night
Show Business
Theatre
Actor
Before
Show
Certainly
District
Curtain
Vast
Street
Walk
Hour
Place
No Business
See
Sounds
Tune
York
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An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Knowledge
Alas
Approach
Danger
Emulate
Fashion
Imitating
Producers
Sean
Theatre
Thinking
Type
Life Great Done
Life Knowledge Great
Tv
Actor
Basis
Connery
Dealing
Frequently
Instead
Role
Supposed
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Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.
Neil Degrasse Tyson / Astrophysicist
Science
Technology
Community
Embrace
Engineers
Fighting
Innovation
Vote
Actor
Communities
Concept
Fight
Journalists
Literate
Meaning
Meaning Of
Poets
Promote
Scientifically
Ways
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Being an actor in TV or movies is different. A film or TV actor, if put in theatre, won't know certain dimensions, while a theatre actor won't know certain things when he comes before the camera. So I think a film actor can learn emoting from this theatre counterpart, while the theatre actor can learn about camera techniques from the film actor.
Barun Sobti /
Certain
Dimensions
Film
Theatre
Tv
Actor
Camera
Certain Things
Counterpart
Techniques
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Werner Herzog, I knew him for so many years, when Fassbinder was at his highest moment. But we had a rule: An actor from Fassbinder could never work with an actor of Werner Herzog or Wim Wenders. Because if we would have done that, we would have been spies. 'Ah, you worked with Werner - how was it? How did he direct you?' I was Fassbinder's actor.
Udo Kier / Actor
Direct
Done
Actor
Ah
Did
Work Done Never
Moment
Rule
So Many Years
Spies
Worked
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Pretty soon I may have to go back to Canada and buy that lumberyard I've always wanted. I'll probably sell some lumber, bring in some lumber... look at exploiting that lumber somehow. I'm not very schooled in it, but being an actor I feel that I have a keen sensibility with regard to the world of lumber because those two businesses are so similar.
Will Sasso /
Canada
Lumber
Regard
Schooled
Sensibility
Wanted
Actor
Pretty
Bring
Businesses
Buy
Sell
Exploiting
Similar
Somehow
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Shooting on the iPhone has become more of a directors' tool to lower inhibition of first-time actors and nonprofessionals. While it's helped me become more mobile, no pun intended - running around, finding tight areas and different ways of moving the camera - to me it's more about using this device to catch candid moments. That's the biggest thing.
Sean Baker /
Running
Candid
Different
Different Ways
Iphone
Mobile
Moments
Moving
Pun
Shooting
Thing
Actor
Area
Around
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Camera
Catch
Device
Finding
Helped
Inhibition
Intended
Lower
Tight
Tool
Ways
While
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With movies, you come and go as an actor, especially if you are not the lead, from week to week. You don't really have a lot of time to get to know anyone, and then on to the next thing. I know a lot of actors who find fulfillment in playing an entirely new character. I like to stick with one character and create a family with the people around me.
Amber Stevens /
Character
Fulfillment
Next
Time Family Movies
Actor
Anyone
Come And Go
Create
Entirely
Family Time Movies
Next Thing
Stick
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