Actor Quotes
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If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.
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I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.
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As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.
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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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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege 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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There is a huge gap between the remuneration of an actor and actress.
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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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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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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.
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I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.
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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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I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.
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This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.
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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 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'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
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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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Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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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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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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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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My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.
