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.
Rachel Joyce -
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.
Randeep Hooda -
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Owen Feltham -
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.
Cameron Dallas -
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon -
I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
Ian McShane
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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.
Sam J. Jones -
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.
Campbell Scott -
Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.
Randy Quaid -
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.
Malcolm McDowell -
We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.
Kate Fleetwood
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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.
Edmonia Lewis -
As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
Natalie Dormer -
Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.
Jack Gleeson -
No actor has complete freedom.
Frances McDormand -
As an actor, I don't want to do something which I have already done before.
Yami Gautam -
I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.
Rachael Taylor
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I have Janicza solely to thank for my growth as an actor because she saw in me something that other people just weren't seeing, and she knew that I could go beyond the normal, funny 'make-em-ups' that I was doing on an improv stage.
Brett Gelman -
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A. J. Liebling -
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
Ovid -
An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.
Evan Esar