
Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.
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I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.
quote by Robin Wright Penn

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You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.
quote by Tim Robbins

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I see myself much more so as an actor. Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood. I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.
quote by William Baldwin

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It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.
quote by Joan Chen

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I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character.
quote by Kiefer Sutherland

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I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me. I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing. As far as producing, I like to facilitate other people's good work. With acting I like to be in ensemble pieces.
quote by Mary Stuart Masterson

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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
quote by Elia Kazan

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I became an actor to escape my own personality. Acting is the most therapeutic thing in the world. I think all the courage that I may lack personally, I have as an actor.
quote by George C. Scott

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Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.
quote by Liam Neeson

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There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.
quote by Tim Roth

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It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.
quote by Jenny Agutter

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I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.
quote by Christopher Eccleston

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I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.
quote by Thomas Haden Church

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Method acting is anything that gets you involved personally in the part, so that you can communicate in human terms with an audience. Despite all the obstacles, the American actor has changed the acting world.
quote by Rod Steiger

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My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.
quote by Armand Assante

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Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.
quote by Sean Connery

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Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.
quote by Rod Steiger

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I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing.
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