Actor Quotes
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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If you're not acting, you're not an 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'm a very proud actor.
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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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The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
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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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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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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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As an actor, I don't want to do something which I have already done before.
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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 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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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 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'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.
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I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.
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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 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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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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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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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 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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It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
