Actor Quotes
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To any aspiring actor, go and train yourself.
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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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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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It's one of those things where if I do a movie, I don't even know if I'm any good. So, I may do one and it sucks and I'm a horrible actor, and I'll never do another one.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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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're constantly looking to be pushed.
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The life of an actor can be very enviable.
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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'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 have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.
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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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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good 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 never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.
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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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For people who seriously want to get into voiceover acting, clearly the most important thing is that you must be a good actor. That comes first. That's why celebrities get so much work in voiceovers - we've seen their work, we know they're good actors.
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Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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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 worked as an actor for many years. Then I segued to some non-fiction writing.
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I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
