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"It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters."
Quote by -Bryce Dallas
"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
"Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
"I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working."
Quote by -Catherine Deneuve
"Being an actor is fantastic because you get to live your dreams and all of that, but I always think it's slightly irritating when you hear from the outside world, and people are like, 'Yeah, well, if I was an actor, and all I had to do was look good, I could be that ripped, too.'"
Quote by -Charlie Hunnam
"Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don't make the transition."
Quote by -Cynthia Nixon
"As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments."
Quote by -Dakota Fanning
"I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot."
Quote by -Dakota Fanning
"I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!"
Quote by -Dakota Fanning
"Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me."
Quote by -Dakota Fanning
"My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews."
Quote by -Dakota Fanning
"ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked."
Quote by -Dakota Fanning
"I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress."
Quote by -Dakota Fanning
"I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house."
Quote by -Dakota Fanning
"We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true."
Quote by -Dallas Willard
"Every outfit carries cultural baggage of some kind. It took me a while to get a handle on this aspect of performance."
Quote by -David Byrne
"Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me."
Quote by -Demi Moore
"Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they'll let it loose and you go, 'Ah that's great.'"
Quote by -Denis Leary
"Anthony Mackie in 'The Hurt Locker' is everything an actor can hope to be. So rock steady in his portrayal that you immediately forget every performance he may have previously given, and focus only on the character in front of you."
Quote by -Denis Leary
"I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!"
Quote by -Diane Lane
"Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why"
Quote by -Dustin Hoffman
"I got into acting so that I could meet girls. Pretty girls came later. First, I wanted to start off with someone with two legs, who'd smile at me and look soft."
Quote by -Dustin Hoffman
"I love acting, and I`m not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do."
Quote by -Dustin Hoffman
"I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in."
Quote by -Dustin Hoffman
"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."
Quote by -Dustin Hoffman
"I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting."
Quote by -Dustin Hoffman
"The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl."
Quote by -Dustin Hoffman
"Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies... every single one of us."
Quote by -Dustin Hoffman
"In terms of the stars, the only ones I cast were Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins. I was in Los Angeles working and a lot of this took place on the telephone. I'd met Maggie [Smith] once and I'd come back-stage, which I'm usually loathe to do because as an actor you don't want people coming back because you want to get home [laughs]."
Quote by -Dustin Hoffman
"Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"'The Godfather' changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely made me have an older man's film career when I was 29."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola
"Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work."
Quote by -Francis Ford Coppola