Nushrat Bharucha Quotes
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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The life of an actor can be very enviable.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
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The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
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As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
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I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms made me think about what I do onstage a little bit more. I had to watch my mouth, because it can be filthy. It changed things for me.
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After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.
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'Vicky Donor' proved that the audience was waiting for well-scripted funny films.
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You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.
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I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.
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One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.
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I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.
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If we're going to keep ourselves interested, we can't play for the reviewer and we can't just play for the audience. In the end, you have to just play for yourself.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.
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The audience's reaction is the most rewarding thing for an actor, especially me.
