Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
I think every actor wants to play those big parts. In the very first play I ever did, I remember understanding all the characters in it. I always felt I could play anyone.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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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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Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.
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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 am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.
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All of my characters are less than perfect.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
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I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
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Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
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They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
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No actor has complete freedom.
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There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.
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Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself.
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.
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We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in Iraq that are largely about Americans in Iraq, doing what Americans do.
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I think every actor wants to play those big parts. In the very first play I ever did, I remember understanding all the characters in it. I always felt I could play anyone.
