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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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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No actor has complete freedom.
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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.
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Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.
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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key.
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I do not have the information - I do not have the competence - to ask the countries how they have handled these questions.
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If you're an actor, go out and act.
