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The greatest gift an actor can have is not revealing who he is but through the parts he plays. Unfortunately, we live in a world where everyone wants to know everything all the time and I think it takes away part of the fun of acting that we have to go through that all the time.
Quote by -Jude Law
It was the shaving that bothered me the most. I'm not a great fan of shaving and I had to be really clean-shaven, hands, head, hairline, all the fluff off my face, everything except my eyebrows, so this sheen, this kind of polish they used on me, would stick.
Quote by -Jude Law
I hadn't read or heard a lot about [Tom] Wolfe until I read this script, and in that way I think it was really clever to write a piece about him instead of Max Perkins,[Ernest] Hemingway, [John] Fitzgerald, or others that people have strong opinions of already.
Quote by -Jude Law
You are [as an actor] aware that you don't want to repeat stuff, but you want to use what has worked. But you don't want to be accused of just going over the old thing, you know? You want it to start growing a little bit more.
Quote by -Jude Law
I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible.'
Quote by -Jude Law
I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.
Quote by -Jude Law
I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.
Quote by -Hugh Laurie
The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passed beyond 49, so probably, I am no longer a desirable commodity for TV. And I am at peace with that; that's fine.
Quote by -Hugh Laurie
When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.
Quote by -Hugh Grant
I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curiosities.
Quote by -Hugh Grant
I'm quite proud of some of the films I've done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they're unpretentious and entertaining. I'm proud of having made unpretentious choices.
Quote by -Hugh Grant
When I finished my degree at Oxford, I went and acted for a bit. And I was appalling. And with each part, I thought, 'Well, that's embarrassing. I'd better do one more to show people I'm not that bad.' And, in fact, instead of a taking a year, that's gone on for 35 years.
Quote by -Hugh Grant
I think the part of my acting career where I've been more successful, I've been incredibly cushioned. People are much too nice to you. You go into politics, and people are absolutely brutal. You've got proper enemies, and they're vicious. It's very invigorating.
Quote by -Hugh Grant
Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.
Quote by -Hugh Grant
If you do too much acting in a lead part in a feature film where you're 40 ft. high, it's rather unattractive. You can see the acting. And it's actually the right thing to do to bring as much of yourself, I believe, to the part as you possibly can - to minimize the amount of theatrical stuff that you need to do.
Quote by -Hugh Grant
As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.
Quote by -Hugh Grant
A lot of actors look at scripts and think, 'How will this stretch me as an actor?' But I always thought, 'Do I want to turn the page? Is this going to make people laugh?'
Quote by -Hugh Grant
I'm a terrible actor. I'm still learning. When I first started, I wish I knew then to trust myself more, really. I was in a terrible panic in the early part of my career.
Quote by -Hugh Grant
Frankly, I think I'm marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That's been my experience of film acting.
Quote by -Hugh Grant
I don't do much acting anymore anyway, and not to work for 20th Century Fox is really the least of my worries.
Quote by -Hugh Grant
There was a phase in my career in my late 20s and 30s when I was doing strange, arty-farty Euro films that were, you could tell, never had much chance of any release anywhere in the world.
Quote by -Hugh Grant
I think I'm becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I'll always feel slightly more at home on stage. It's more of an actor's medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you.
Quote by -Michael Sheen
What's enjoyable for me, as an actor, is to do as many different things as possible.
Quote by -Michael Sheen
I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.
Quote by -Michael Sheen
I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.
Quote by -Michael Sheen
Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.
Quote by -Michael Sheen
When you come to actually act, it's a game. It may be a very serious game, but it's still a game. If you lose that sense of play, the work suffers.
Quote by -Michael Sheen
Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.
Quote by -Michael Palin
"I want people to look at my films and say 'Wow, she's a good actress', and I know I'll have to work hard for that."
Quote by -Bella Thorne
"I just want to bring as much natural as I can. I'm not saying that people who take acting lessons are false. They're much better than I am, but it doesn't work for me."
Quote by -Betty White
"We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them."
Quote by -Billy Bob Thornton
"After you've done 60-something movies, you're always looking for something different."
Quote by -Billy Bob Thornton
"On TV you can, you know you can cram, you know, 30 people into a closet and have an orgy, and then they can all shoot up, and everybody has cigarettes in their nostrils and their ears. They don't care. So yeah, television is amazing right now."
Quote by -Billy Bob Thornton
"Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal."
Quote by -Billy Bob Thornton
"I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film."
Quote by -Brigitte Bardot
"Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer."
Quote by -Brigitte Bardot
"I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now."
Quote by -Brigitte Bardot