Hayden Christensen Quotes
One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
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I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
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Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
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The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
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Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising, or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
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Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
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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 often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
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My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
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Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
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I love London, I love the British people.
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Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
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People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.
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When people told the audience that Sam Kinison was good, he was accepted after that.
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One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.
