Actor Quotes
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One of the coolest things about being an actor is growing, and changing with everything, and never making the same decision twice because you've learned so much from the last project. I guess that's like in life. You keep moving through, and you hopefully learn from your mistakes and just get better and better all the time.
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
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If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
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I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.'
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I think of myself as an actor.
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Michael Hogan is an absolutely brilliant actor, so anytime I get to work with someone of that caliber, I get excited.
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I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now.
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I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.
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It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
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I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to pay for my college education. I applied for a summer announcing job at a couple of radio stations.
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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 personally don't think you should ever date someone you work with, will work with, etc. I won't ever date an actor.
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As an actor, I don't want to do something which I have already done before.
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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'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting 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 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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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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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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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.
