Actor Quotes
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I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.
Mahershala Ali
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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
Jack Nicholson
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It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.
Irrfan Khan
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To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.
A. J. Bowen
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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.
Jeff Goldblum
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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.
Octavia Spencer
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My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.
Micky Dolenz The Monkees
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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.
Yami Gautam
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You can be a dynamic actor, but could never be a star if you never spend time with the media. That's something that I neglected to do.
Bokeem Woodbine
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I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
Harrison Ford
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I have no idea what 'method actor' means.
Viggo Mortensen
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An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.
Eleanor Robson Belmont
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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.
David Hayter
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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.'
Orlando Bloom
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Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.
Jude Law
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When I came to Mumbai from Dubai to become an actor, I used to entertain people at parties by showing some card tricks.
Rithvik Dhanjani
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I worked as an actor for many years. Then I segued to some non-fiction writing.
Cameron Dokey
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I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
Macaulay Culkin
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
D. H. Lawrence
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I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.
Evan Peters
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I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.
Sam Shepard
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I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
T. J. Thyne
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It was never a plan to be an actor.
Mads Mikkelsen