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'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.”
“When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.”
“I've made a career of taking roles that other actresses didn't want.”
“I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych.”
“I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.”
“I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.”
“I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.”
“If Hollywood didn't work out I was all prepared to be the best secretary in the world.”
“My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.”
“The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.”
“I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.”
“I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.”
“I wanted to be an English teacher.”
“Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.”
“Maybe I don't take myself quite as seriously as I used to, but the work has gotten better and more interesting, and I'm just having more fun.”
“I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.”
“I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.”
“I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.”
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