Actor Quotes
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True, I was born and raised in Chennai, fluent in Tamil, but essentially, I am a Telugu guy and a Telugu actor.
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There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.
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I think it's great when dramatic actors do lighter, funny roles.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.
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If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.
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I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.
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It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'
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I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.
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In fact you can begin to discover and investigate whether you are an actor or not, whether you're in my view, qualified for a life in this profession or in this endeavor by checking yourself out and acting every day, getting plays and scripts and getting together with people and divvying up the parts and acting in one way or another, or writing things.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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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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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. So people may choose to explore their other talents.
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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Thankfully, the life of an actor can be quite balanced anyway. If you look over the course of a whole year, you do tend to have periods of down time. So, it's about managing the balance.
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As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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I'm a very proud actor.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.
