Acting And Actors

(33 votes)   After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

Frances McDormand

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(33 votes)   Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

Roger Moore
1927-, British-born American Actor

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(32 votes)   I find myself fascinating.

Richard Dryfus
American Actor

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(31 votes)   Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- ''the three I s'' -- are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination.

Ellen Terry

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(30 votes)   First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

Michael Caine
1933-, British-born American Actor, Acting teacher

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(30 votes)   I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.

Holly Hunter
1958-, American Actress

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(30 votes)   I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

Elaine Dundy

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(30 votes)   Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing -- all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art -- at the door.

Konstantin Stanislavisky
1863-1968, Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher

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(30 votes)   Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

Marion Davies
1897-1961, American Actress

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(29 votes)   I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Marcel Marceau
1923-, French Mime Artist

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(29 votes)   Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.

Konstantin Stanislavisky
1863-1968, Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher

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(28 votes)   From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say, ''You would have made a great James Bond! Weren't you going to be James Bond? You should have been, you could have been, you may have been.'' Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It was like unfinished business in my life. I couldn't say no to it this time around.

Pierce Brosnan
1952-, Irish-born American Actor

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(28 votes)   Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. [On filming MacHale's Navy]

Bruce Campbell

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(28 votes)   When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls.

Steve Buscemi
1952-, American Actor, Director, Playwright, Producer, Screenwriter

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(27 votes)   Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Glenda Jackson
1936-, British Actress and politician

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