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 built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.”
“I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.”
“All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.”
“When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it.”
“I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now.”
“When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.”
“If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.”
“Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.”
“I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.”
“80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see.”
“If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.”
“All critics should be assassinated.”
“I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.”
“I can't stand innuendo. If I see one in a script I whip it out immediately.”
“Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world.”
“You could be as vulgar as you want, as long as three tiny spots were covered.”
“I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.”
“Actors can't retire. What would they do?”
“Maybe if I hadn't been so fastidious, I might have changed history.”
“When I started out I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.”
“I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.”
“Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.”
“I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don't see work as closing down as an older woman. ”
“Strange that over the course of my career I have played perhaps more doctors than any other profession while having very little first hand experience with them”
“I can't separate cinema from my life. The two things are interrelated and enrich or impoverish each other.”
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