Actor Quotes
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After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.
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It's crazy, it's different. It's what I wanted, but it's different. It's not exactly what I wanted, you know what I mean? If you become an actor you want to be a successful actor; but with success comes a lot of things. Some of it's great! It's great to be able to pay your rent from the work that you do.
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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.
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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 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 was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.
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I'm very bad at being an actor or guitarist. The sign on my gravestone would be, 'I've been getting away with it all my life.'
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If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.
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An actor goes crazy in a hotel room, gets trashed, throws a bench, breaks a window, and he is considered a rock star. An actress does that and she’s sent to rehab and is thought to have problems and issues and can’t get a job.
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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.
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I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.
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I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.
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I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
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Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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There's absolutely no purpose for me ever to embarrass an actor by not getting the best possible performance. So, if it takes staying longer, then we'll staying longer and work through it.
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I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.
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My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.
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It was never a plan to be an actor.
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But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.
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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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A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.
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When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.
