Actor Quotes
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Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.
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Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
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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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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.
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Work always comes first as an actor.
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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 have been an actor now for 40 years having worked in over 10 countries and three languages.
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I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.
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I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake.
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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'm an actor, because I get to see other sides of life and I get to be other people and it excites me so much.
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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 don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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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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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.
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You don't stop when a musical number comes up and do the number and then take up the scene where you left off. It all moves forward. Your work as an actor was part of your work as a dancer as well. It was dialogue through movement.
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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
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The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.
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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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I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.
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When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.
