Actor Quotes
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It was never a plan to be an actor.
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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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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 never thought I'd be an actor.
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My ambition is to get better as an actor.
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I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.
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For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.
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I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.
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I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.
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I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.
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An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.
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I'm a full-contact actor, meaning that I love to act in my toes and in my fingers, and I just try to keep it surprising.
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My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.
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Zombies - obviously they're doing it in a much more expansive way on The Walking Dead - basically, what you used to do is you put a bunch of goo on an actor and have them shamble towards you, and it's a very effective creature. It always has tremendous impact, just that feeling of death coming for you; that's universally accepted.
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I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
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I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.
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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'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
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After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.
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I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
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I have no idea what 'method actor' means.
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When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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With the type of actor I am, which includes really diving into a role and making it as real as possible, there's nothing better than working in a real environment on location. It forces you to feel what the character's feeling, and it allows you to live in the space of the character.
