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.
Maggie Smith -
Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
Jack Lemmon -
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.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
Ian McShane -
To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
Jackie Cooper -
How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
Ian Mckellen
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The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
Harrison Ford -
The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
Jack Gleeson -
You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
Natasha Leggero -
My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
Quentin Tarantino -
I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
Yann Martel -
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.
Zach Gilford
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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.
Sally Hawkins -
Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!
Vanessa Hudgens -
I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
T. J. Thyne -
Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
Jack Nicholson -
No actor has complete freedom.
Frances McDormand -
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 think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing cynicism among all Hoosiers.
Jim Gaffigan -
President Sadat of Egypt made a historic breakthrough in 1977 when he put an end to war and convinced both Egyptians and Israelis that he was ready to make peace. He broke down the walls of suspicion and prejudice.
Yitzhak Rabin -
To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.
Jonathan Frid -
Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
Yo-Yo Ma -
To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.
Fernando Pessoa -
If you're an actor, go out and act.
Simon McBurney