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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Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.
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The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.
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I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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Some people go shopping - I cut myself.
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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.
