Actor Quotes
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There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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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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When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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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 no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.
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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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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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I'm a very proud actor.
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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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As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.
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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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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 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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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.
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It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.
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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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To any aspiring actor, go and train yourself.
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If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
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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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Being actors is a strange job.
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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.
