Evan Esar Quotes
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don't think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated - that is something I would find hard to digest.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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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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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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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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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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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 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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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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When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.
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Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.
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As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
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Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.
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No actor has complete freedom.
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As an actor, I don't want to do something which I have already done before.
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Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?
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I'm not starry eyed, and I'm not money crazy.
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I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.
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An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.
