Actor Quotes
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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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As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.
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Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.
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If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.
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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.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
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No actor wants to play to an empty house.
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I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
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I think every actor brings something personal to a role, right?
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
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In my head, I believed even though I am an actor, there was no need to dance. That's not me.
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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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I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?'
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You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.
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And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
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I grew up watching movies and television, and one day when I was really young I told my mom I wanted to become an actor, and she was really supportive and got me involved in local theater and commercials. From there I moved up to auditioning for movies and television.
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If the goal of an actor is to tell the best story ever, there's no higher story than Jesus Christ.
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I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.
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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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Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor.
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There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?
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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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That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.
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Being an actor, I never think I'm going to get the part. It's always a thrill when things go the way you hope they will.
