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I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.
Bill Condon
Needs
Director
Try
Think
He
Part
Get
Being
Where
Wants
Sensitive
Much
Really
Working
Each
Actor
I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
Bill Forsyth
Thought
Made
Films
Relate
Major
Experimental
Chore
Actor
Filmmaker
Oh, I love Rock to death, man. He doesn't inspire me as an actor but, I mean, come on.
Bill Goldberg
Love
Death
Me
Man
Inspire
He
Come
Rock
Oh
Mean
Actor
I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way.
Bill Hader
Saying
You
People
Thought
Way
Say
Would
Never
Until
SNL
Where
Agent
Season
Actor
Fourth
Every actor has a method.
Bill Macy
Every
Method
Actor
I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.
Bill Murray
Good
You
Mistakes
National
Nothing
Other
Everything
Collaboration
Out
City
Had
Look
Looked
Make
Learned
SNL
Any
Where
Create
Actor
Second
Second City
This really should be kept secret, but you can learn a lot by watching the making-of DVDs. Every actor should do it. You figure out what you're dealing with.
Bill Murray
You
Every
Secret
Out
Learn
Dealing
Lot
Really
Should
Figure
Actor
Watching
Kept
I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.
Bill Murray
Old
Tough
Out
City
More
Fellow
Came
Chicago
Themselves
Actor
Second
Second City
Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.
Bill Murray
Time
You
Travel
Trouble
Think
High
Through
Well
Well Known
Known
Sure
Salaries
Get
Any
Whenever
Being
Acting
Paid
Film
Actor
Film Actors
Away
I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done.
Bill Nighy
Me
Seen
Sorry
Worried
Slightly
Kids
Never
Football
Know
House
Because
Around
Felt
Always
Done
Anything
Who
Actor
Play
Play Football
One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
Bill Nighy
Experience
Assumed
Extrovert
One Of The Things
About
Case
Never
Almost
Which
Actor
Things
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
Bill Nighy
Life
You
Ruin
Wanting
Your
Actor
I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
Bill Nighy
Happy
Long
Odds
Rich
Because
Always
Get
Actor
Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.
Bill Nunn
Work
Time
Every
Other
Every Time
Ongoing
Study
Learn
Because
Always
Educational
Going
Process
Actor
Watching
Career
If you want to be an actor, you should just get out there and do it. I don't go for the approach of first getting photos and an agent. I think you should start with the work, and the other stuff will follow. As with 'opportunity knocks,' you have to be ready.
Bill Nunn
Work
You
Opportunity
Will
First
Think
Other
Approach
Out
Photos
Follow
Stuff
Knocks
Ready
Opportunity Knocks
Go
Get
Getting
Just
Want
Agent
Should
Actor
Start
I'm constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It's completely disproportionate. I think you have to feel guilty about it. I think it makes you a better person to keep reminding yourself.
Bill Skarsgard
You
Yourself
Money
Better
Think
Guilty
Embarrassed
Constantly
About
Better Person
Attention
Feel
Reminding
Makes
Person
Get
Keep
Actor
Disproportionate
Level
A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
Billy Campbell
Best
Myself
Great
Me
You
Battle
Try
Challenge
Great Deal
Lying
Back
Flying
Trick
Hospital
Self-Conscious
Days
Make
Around
Deal
Always
Bed
Rocket
Being
Whether
Pack
Whittle
Actor
Away
Things
I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act.
Billy Crudup
Think
Come
Anything
Should
Act
Actor
My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.
Billy Crudup
Great
You
Parents
Way
Respond
Tell
Seeing
Proper
Had
Performance
Like
Because
How
Go
Were
Encouraging
After
Regardless
Whether
Again
Them
Really
Next
Teach
Actor
Play
Night
I went to acting school, and there were twenty other actors in my class who were exceptional. It's hard for anybody to get work. When I was trying to get jobs, I felt a responsibility to be respectful of the opportunities and take challenging things that could be interesting both for me as an actor and for the audience.
Billy Crudup
Work
Me
Class
School
Opportunities
Responsibility
Other
Respectful
Jobs
Both
Could
Exceptional
Take
Felt
Audience
Were
Get
Trying
Anybody
Interesting
Acting
Hard
Acting School
Who
Twenty
Actor
Challenging
Things
The truth is I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act. I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell instead of putting it on our backs.
Billy Crudup
Truth
Truth Is
Will
Pay
Think
Our
Backs
See
Proper
Instead
Putting
Feel
Come
Advertising
Sell
Movie
Anything
Should
Act
Companies
Film
Actor
One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It's one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don't change from role to role. I don't want it that way.
Billy Crudup
You
Change
People
Difficulties
Intertwined
Way
Those
Out
Run
Charismatic
Come
Make
Celebrity
Expect
Role
Closely
Being
Want
Personalities
Acting
Actor
Things
Careers
I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.
Billy Crudup
Work
Myself
Incredibly
Those
Finds
Divorce
Performance
Itself
Confess
Hard
Who
Actor
I think one of the things that people take for granted when they watch a film is the actors have to exhibit an extraordinary amount of force to block out the stuff that isn't a part of their reality. And when the audience sees it, they're seeing everything the actor isn't seeing.
Billy Crudup
Reality
People
Take For Granted
Think
Extraordinary
Everything
Out
One Of The Things
Seeing
Sees
Take
Part
Stuff
Force
Audience
Block
Exhibit
Granted
Film
Actor
Amount
Things
Watch
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