I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It’s not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties. - Rowan Atkinson
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all. - Rowan Atkinson
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression. - Rowan Atkinson
But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless. - Shia LaBeouf
I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role. - Shia LaBeouf
I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work. - Shia LaBeouf
I'm a call-sheet junkie. I love being on set. So, the hardest thing for me is dealing with all this idle time. That's when I get into trouble. - Shia LaBeouf
I'm not a celebrity, I've kind of been under the radar, has kept it easier for me to maintain a career. - Shia LaBeouf
If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it. - Shia LaBeouf
That's one thing I never had to do on a Mike Bay set is sit around and pontificate about the next scene; there's no time for it. You're already in the next scene. - Shia LaBeouf
The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time. - Shia LaBeouf
When you're working with the best of the best, I'm not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best. - Shia LaBeouf
Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script. - Anthony Hopkins
I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else. - Anthony Hopkins
I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that. - Anthony Hopkins
I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful. - Anthony Hopkins
I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had. - Anthony Hopkins
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