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 love to star in movies, but I want to have good roles.”
“Scorsese and De Niro taught me to bring out the natural side of myself.”
“It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.”
“I'm not going to fight! I'm going to entertain!”
“Nice guys are boring, and bad guys are fun to play.”
“I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.”
“I've worked with top-of-the-line directors and they know what they want.”
“The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I'm offered.”
“I want to be able to do anything. I know it's probably not reasonable to expect, but that's what I'd like to do.”
“I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.”
“Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.”
“I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion.”
“I had no ambition to become an actor at all.”
“I love to be the lead, but you can't always be the lead.”
“To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life.”
“I try to make the best of the opportunities that have been given to me.”
“My journey has been that of a character actor.”
“I still think of myself as a stage actor.”
“I'm impossible to direct.”
“I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles.”
“I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down.”
“I haven't been in a position to have the luxury to pick roles for most of my career, so I'm not practiced in that. Usually, when you want to be an actor, you take whatever comes along.”
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