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Actors' quotes about their colleagues
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This section contains actors and directors' quotes about their colleagues. Whether it is about constructive criticism or affirmation of respect and esteem, celebrities are always willing to talk about people they worked with or that have inspired them. In this section you will find every unfiltered statement and thought of what actors and directors' think about each other.
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“Steve has to prove he had a worse childhood than anybody else. Only one other person I know can compete with him and that’s Charles Bronson.”
“She doesn’t give a damn how she looks. I don’t think she tries to be a character. I think she is one.”
- Also found in Career in Cinema
“I didn’t do anything I’ve never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she’s saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic.”
“I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.”
“I'm quite curious and excited about seeing a new script for 'Blade Runner.' If, in fact, the opportunity would exist to do another, if it's a good script, I would be very anxious to work with Ridley Scott again; he's a very talented and passionate filmmaker. And I think it would be very interesting to revisit the character.”
“Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding.”
- Also found in Career in Cinema
“Paulette struck me as being somewhat of a gamine.”
“All the time I was in Berlin Garbo was my favorite. I only had Sunday afternoon free; I was playing, rehearsing all the other time. So on Sunday afternoons I used to go to see Garbo's pictures. I followed them from one theater to another; maybe sometimes I saw one five or six times. And when I came to America I thought perhaps I will meet her. I...” (continue)(continue reading)
“She had this terrible disadvantage when she started out. She was quite the most beautiful actress in London.”
Like "Gone With the Wind", [Greta] Garbo is monumentally overrated. Her voice is deep, she has no humor, her figure is flat, her carriage is not graceful, her feet are big, her private life is a fog. Only her face is perfect.
“I like the fact that Chris Rock is one of the best stand ups ever and still is a really good actor. And a great professional and a good friend and a wonderful human being.”
“My old man is a man of few words.”
“I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and above all, a true gentleman.”
“Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. ”
“It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.”
- Also found in Money and Actors
“I did four movies with [John Wayne]. We were a strange combination. He was a Republican and I was a Democrat. We argued all the time.”
“He's the apple of our eye. He's a fine actor, but he's starting to turn down acting work because he's about to become a director.”
“I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.”
“I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on with him really quite well.”
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