Actor Quotes
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Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
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I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything.
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I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.
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I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.
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I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a different approach to the character that makes sense as an actor.
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I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.
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If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.
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I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular; I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor.
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Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.
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Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.
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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.
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An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
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Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.
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I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
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I want to stretch myself as an actor.
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I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.
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And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.
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I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.
