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 parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted 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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When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.
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Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.
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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.
