Simon McBurney Quotes
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
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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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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
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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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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
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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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Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!
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Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.
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I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
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Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.
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You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
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The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.
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If you're an actor, go out and act.
