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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Wrrite, wrrite, Lapochka, why you don’t wrrite?” and assure me that a horse, even with four legs, stumbles. I found it difficult to explain to her what I was writing. “It’s about Colley Cibber,” I said. “He was an actor, playwright and poet.” “Also poet?” Varya asked suspiciously. “Who he? Pushkin?”
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Stereotypes have their roots in truth.
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.
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My favorite date movie is Scarface. There's nothing like taking a woman to see Scarface. It gets the panties off quick.
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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.
