Johnathon Schaech Quotes
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
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The idea was always to be an actor.
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When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.
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The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
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When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material.
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No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow to wide, I kept all my old ones until the style went back to narrow.
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The sweet potato salad from Spoonbread & Strawberry Wine.
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You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.
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To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.
