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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“When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.”
“I'm actually doing more stunts for 'Maze Runner' than I did for 'Insurgent'.”
“When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.”
“Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them.”
I didn't have a lot of ambition, which I think was a good thing. I was ambitious about quality, but I wasn't ambitious in the "I've got to get a pilot!" way.
“It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.”
“I never really felt like a movie star until 'Police Woman'.”
“Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.”
“I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.”
“I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.”
“There are a lot of things I would have done differently, but Scully wouldn't have been one of them.”
“There are three stages in an actor's career: Who is John Amos? Get me John Amos. Get me a young John Amos.”
“I think these awards are wonderful. Cinema should get more international. The fine boundary lines don't really exist any more.”
“I was once supposed to play the wind in a commercial - yes, the wind. I didn't get it.”
“To be totally sincere, I'd surely be a better actor today if I hadn't played Columbo all these years.”
- Also found in The Art of Acting and Filmmaking
“For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.”
- Also found in The Art of Acting and Filmmaking
“I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little.”
“The toughest three pictures I ever made.”
- Also found in Money and Actors
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“There were times when my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and know if it was heads or tails.”
“People ask me 'how come you been around so long?' Well, it's through playing the part of Mr. Average Joe American.”
“Until I came along, all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.”
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