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In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first.
Quote by -Tom Brokaw
“As an actor, a Dogme film is not that big a difference. You don’t have to wait for the lighting, so you get a better rhythm. It’s the camera guy and the editor and the sound guy who are in trouble. Because they can’t do what they’re used to doing.”
Quote by -Ulrich Thomsen
"I'm no editor, no artisan, no expert. And certainly no arbiter of what you should buy, wear, or eat."
Quote by -Blake Lively
It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
Quote by -Christian Bale
I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that's precisely why I like acting.
Quote by -Christian Bale
You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.
Quote by -Christian Bale
As an actor, I don't feel like it's necessary to watch a great deal of films. In fact, I think it can lead to imitation and unhealthy competition, which just isn't needed.
Quote by -Christian Bale
A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.
Quote by -Christian Bale
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.my
Quote by -Daniel Craig
“First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.”
Quote by -Marilyn Monroe
“With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.”
Quote by -Marilyn Monroe
I know, a lot of the films I've done, it's obvious I'm going to beat up six guys and just walk out the door. There's not a lot of motivating factors - it's just action for the sake of action.
Quote by -Jason Statham
A movie, it's like a very complicated timepiece. There's a lot of wheels in a watch. And some of those wheels, if they don't turn right, then, you know, the watch ain't gonna tell the time.
Quote by -Jason Statham
If we want to talk about the movies that have made an impact in what I do in the action realm - Bruce Lee in 'Enter the Dragon.' I've watched that countless times.
Quote by -Jason Statham
A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.
Quote by -Jason Statham
“Acting isn’t something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you’re going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.”
Quote by -Marilyn Monroe
“I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.”
Quote by -Johnny Cash
“I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he’s a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read.”
Quote by -Johnny Cash
“I was born with something that appealed to an audience at that particular time…I acted instinctively. I’ve had one of the greatest schools of all – a whole row of great, great directors.”
Quote by -Audrey Hepburn
“My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird—equal seekers of sweetness.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
When the Batman TV series was taken to the silver screen, one of America's favourite sweethearts would don the mask and claws of Catwoman.
Quote by -Eartha Kitt
As the Batman TV series was returning to ABC for its second season in 1967, the TV bosses decided to take Catwoman into another direction......lucky for me.
Quote by -Eartha Kitt
I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
Quote by -Idris Elba
Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else.
Quote by -Idris Elba
As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with...
Quote by -Idris Elba
Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.
Quote by -Idris Elba
What kind of role do you play after someone like Stringer, you know what I mean? You play another gangster. What’s the point of that? I’ve played the gangster. I try to keep it really varied; it just makes for more of a fun and interesting career.
Quote by -Idris Elba
Television, for me, is a medium that I'm probably always going to be attached to, one way or another.
Quote by -Idris Elba
Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.
Quote by -Idris Elba
I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.
Quote by -Anthony Hopkins
The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
Quote by -Anthony Hopkins
Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.
Quote by -Anthony Hopkins
Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.
Quote by -Anthony Hopkins
If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set.
Quote by -Anthony Hopkins
I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.
Quote by -Anthony Hopkins
When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
Quote by -Orlando Bloom
As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day you're in. You have no control over the finished product, what people will think of it, so all you have is the experience of making it, and you have to stay focused on that.
Quote by -Orlando Bloom
I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.
Quote by -Orlando Bloom