Career in Cinema
Actors' quotes about success and career
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This section covers quotes about actors and directors' career. The focus is not only success, but also the different paths that have brought people to glory or failure. Talent, charisma, personal choices and lucky encounters, but also awards and embarrassing career moments are some of the themes that are dealt with through the stars' quotes.
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“I came to America to become an architect.”
“Once I became a total buffoon, it was so liberating.”
“I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.”
“There's a special excitement in playing a man who made a hole in history large enough to be remembered centuries after he died.”
“I am interested in failures — the homosexual genius, the suicidal genius, the fantasist genius, all these people are heroes to me.”
“If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.”
“The first day I saw Richard Burton on the 'Cleopatra' set, there was a lot of hemming and hawing and he said hello to Joe Mankiewicz and everyone. And then he sort of sidled over to me and said 'Has anybody ever told you that you're a very pretty girl?'. And I said to myself, Oh gevaldt, here's the great lover, the great wit, the great...” (continue)(continue reading)
“Those pictures I made with Fred Astaire will hold up on today's TV and all types of people praise them. They were made for sheer entertainment, fun and yes, we had fun making them, though in those days before the Screen Actors Guild we'd sometimes work through the nights, two days at a time. And at the end of those long stretches, that's when...” (continue)(continue reading)
“The whole thing is to keep working and pretty soon they'll think you're good.”
“There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.”
“I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.”
“For me, I'm a dancer first. I could be the President of the United States, and I will always be a dancer, first and foremost.”
“I love playing the bad guy, it’s always more fun, always more interesting.”
“It's really challenging to play comedy.”
“Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.”
“Years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.”
“Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.”
“When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.”
“It's hard for the American industry to see a Latin actor playing something that is not a gardener or someone in a cartel.”
“It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work.”
“I'm actually a very romantic person, and I would like to play in a love story. As long as it doesn't get too sweet.”
“I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.”
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