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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.


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JACK BLACK The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole...
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BARBARA HERSHEY I think a good rapport is required between actors for any film.
YAMI GAUTAM I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses...
LAURA BUSH There are so many stage actors on TV but you wouldn't know they were stage actors. And film and ...
MATTHEW MORRISON I've worked with a couple of these really cool, great actors like Ted Danson and Glenn Close. Th...
VANESSA RAY That was a fun script and a lot of great Irish actors.
CILLIAN MURPHY I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Har...
ROBERT DE NIRO Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.
SHIRLEY KNIGHT A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.
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PETER DINKLAGE I started to respect older actors when I was young and then contemporary actors later on. Then I lea...
ANNE MEARA The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in ...
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STEVE COOGAN I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how pe...
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OMARI HARDWICK Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of ...
ADAM RAPP Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my...
BEAU BRIDGES Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors.
MARGARET RUTHERFORD I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.
TARA REID I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly diffe...
ADAM MCKAY It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.
MONA SINGH I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn&#...
ANTHONY HOPKINS There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look dow...
GEORGE CLOONEY I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, 'Oh, we should film...
CLIVE OWEN [Going live evokes the immediacy of theater.] When you tell actors who have theater backgrounds that...
JIMMY SMITS I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.
LOGAN LERMAN The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i...
DEBORAH MAILMAN People on series are now given a lot more opportunities, sometimes more than film actors.
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TED DANSON I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of ...
JESSICA CHASTAIN I've been blessed. Starting with Steppenwolf Theater and onward, learning from wonderful actors ...
JEFF PERRY I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.
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JARED PADALECKI Actors are not a great breed of people, I don't think. I count myself as something of an exception. ...
AMY IRVING I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like t...
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ROBERTO AGUIRE I think most actors like to be liked.
ANJELICA HUSTON Independent film is for actors that love to act.
JOHN LEGUIZAMO I don't think film actors need training, really, but I needed any help I could get.
PAUL GIAMATTI Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the p...
RUBEN BLADES Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.
MARCELLO MASTROIANNI I think a lot of people who are child actors - it's a weird thing.
LORELEI LINKLATER I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themse...
ALEX KINGSTON A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a g...
RICHARD WIDMARK I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people wi...
DAKOTA JOHNSON I feel like my early experiences of acting, and I think a lot of other actors' too, are probably...
MATT MCGORRY Something great about 'The Last Ship' is that it employs a lot of actors, and a lot of actor...
JOHN PYPER-FERGUSON The actors I admired were Bogart, Cagney, Cooper, Tracy. Great personalities. Real stars.
JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever.
ANDY SERKIS We want to create a theater that people take home and think about and mull over - and perhaps make s...
JOSEPH MCGRATH Ooooh ....... lycra feels good. I could get used to this film role!
CHRISTOPHER REEVE I think I'm like any actor, most actors it's kind of inbred in you that you're never going to work a...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don'...
BARBARA HERSHEY I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic d...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR I think theater and church are so relatable because it's traditional call-and-response in the wa...
DANIELLE BROOKS It's quite an exercise for the actors. It's a great little piece for the actors because they get to ...
KATHY CLOPPER I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I...
THOMAS HORN The differences between us as actors, Reese and I, seem to play out between us in our parts, ... I c...
MARK RUFFALO My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.
TRACEY ULLMAN I have great respect for actors like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman who went to school the entire ...
NIKKI REED Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. Yo...
ANSEL ELGORT A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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IAN HOLM There are so many great actors, but I really have a lot of respect for Johnny Depp. I've seen a ...
ED SPELEERS Part of the problem with producing contemporary political theater in America today is that many thea...
THERESA REBECK Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the p...
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KEVIN COSTNER Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?
GENE SISKEL I just realized at some point that I was hopelessly in love with the theater. I fought it for a long...
ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like act...
BRYAN FULLER I'm having a great time working with all these actors. We have a couple of newcomers, like Ariel Fil...
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FREDDY RODRIGUEZ The world's a theater, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill
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EDDIE MARSAN We have sought exemptions from hearings for the film actors.
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SAM NEILL I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
SAM NEILL Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
SAM NEILL People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
SAM NEILL I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i...
SAM NEILL I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
SAM NEILL I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a...
SAM NEILL No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
SAM NEILL Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ...
SAM MENDES It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi...
SAM MENDES For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
SAM MENDES One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi...
SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
SAM MENDES Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o...
SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey.
SAM MENDES If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
SAM MENDES