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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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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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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The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
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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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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
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As an actor, I don't want to do something which I have already done before.
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The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
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Your mind may take you far, but your heart must be continuously inspired and expanded if it is to give you the determination and spirit to overcome your challenges and to go the distance.
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I don't have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet.
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My biggest worry is that we have to keep making good music, and I want to do well, but I wonder if I will be able to.
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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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.
