Iwan Rheon Quotes
I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time about that, which I think is the wrong way to teach a young actor. They just made me really, really self-conscious about everything I did, which is the opposite of what you need to be when you're filming.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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The life of an actor can be very enviable.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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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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The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.
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While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.
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In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.
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I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.
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I think every actor brings something personal to a role, right?
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I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.
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I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.
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As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
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Modern society is too quick to judge people on their appearances. There is not much you can do about it; it is the way they think; it is the way they are. But maybe this could teach them a lesson, or set an example.
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God and Nature met in light.
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I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in the cupboard.
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There’s value in work you enjoy, or that serves a need. There’s no value in work for its own sake.
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I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time about that, which I think is the wrong way to teach a young actor. They just made me really, really self-conscious about everything I did, which is the opposite of what you need to be when you're filming.
