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.
“I write with everybody.”
“I think most actors want to try to do all different genres at least once.”
“I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing.”
“I have no standards. I do everything.”
“There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave.”
“I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.”
“Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.”
“I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.'”
“Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.”
“I am starting to explore directing, maybe in the future in the world of 'White Collar.'”
“It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.”
“It's not that I'm sick of the theater, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of the commitment.”
“I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.”
“I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.”
“As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.”
“Doing comedy is still in my veins; that's my first love.”
“I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.”
“When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.”
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