Steve Howey (Steven Michael Robert Howey) Quotes
The least amount of info actors get, the better. Actors are always like, 'What is my motivation for this?' You didn't write it. Just say the lines.
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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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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.
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The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
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I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.
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We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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The idea was always to be an actor.
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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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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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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've dubbed for my roles in Hindi, English, and Italian. Therefore, I'm used to the process. But, dubbing is hard, especially when you are dubbing for a prominent actor.
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I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country and have so many doors open for me. So I want to go back and make a difference and give motivation or hope to all the kids that never got to leave or have the privilege that I did.
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Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.
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They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
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Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.
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I remember certain lines and whose they are.
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I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.
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Other people gotta be told when to go to the gym, what to work out, what to work on, what to do. For me, it was always my own self-motivation of maybe just wanting to make it out of Compton. I was like that with everything in my life.
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I don't go to enough exhibitions, purely because it intimidates me.
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My family are amazing. I had like, the perfect upbringing. It sucks for people like Lindsey [Lohan], but it's not her fault she's so off the rails.
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The least amount of info actors get, the better. Actors are always like, 'What is my motivation for this?' You didn't write it. Just say the lines.
