Actor Quotes
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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 got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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I never have such luxury of leisure time. But whenever I get some time, I catch up on watching movies, keep going to theatre to watch plays, gigs of my actor friends.
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Even when I was in Dubai, I used to host small birthday parties, events, and lots more to make money of my own to fulfil my wish to become an actor. I didn't take any money from my parents to fulfil my dream.
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The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
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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 always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.
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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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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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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 was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did.
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.
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I'm just looking to be in the best movies possible and do the best work possible and try to become a better actor and make better movies.
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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'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'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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I've dubbed for my roles in Hindi, English, and Italian. Therefore, I'm used to the process. But, dubbing is hard, especially when you are dubbing for a prominent actor.
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
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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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If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
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If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.
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I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.
