Actor Quotes
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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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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 started as a child, in this PBS series 'Voyage of the Mimi,' which led to driving down to New York for 'Afterschool Special' auditions, which led to moving to Los Angeles. I wanted to be an actor. But in L.A., I got into film technology, and I was building cheap editing systems and would edit my friend's acting reels.
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There is a huge gap between the remuneration of an actor and actress.
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I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.
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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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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 think that, as an actor, you have to break out eventually, and if you do it properly, it can be something that's positive.
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One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.
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When I got into the film world, I got sucked into the secular aspect of the entertainment field and I really drifted away from my faith. Its amazing...as successful as I was as an actor, and the money and the fame, there was still something missing.
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I want to stretch myself as an actor.
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As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
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I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.
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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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Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.
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Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
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I always wanted to be a great actor.
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I had to learn that a good actor, like an iceberg, reveals only a small part of his ability on the surface. You suggest; you don't serve on a platter. You hold back. You don't expose it all to view. That's the way to put the audience's imagination to work.
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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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All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I 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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I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.
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I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.
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Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.
