Actor Quotes
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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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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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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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All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
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As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, "This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever."
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Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
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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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Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.
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Work always comes first as an actor.
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Muhlenberg is the school that made me and shaped me into the actor I am today.
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I'm shy. People get confused. They think as an actor you can get up and be confident on the screen. Why aren't you like this in normal life? Why can't you act in your social life? 'Because I can't!'
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My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.
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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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When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.
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Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.
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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 always wanted to be a great actor.
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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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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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There are a few things for the New York actor that you hope to one day cross off the bucket list. One of them was I got to do an episode of 'Blue Bloods,' which was really fun.
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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
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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 American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. I actually want to do this Shakespeare play in New York, but I think it's interesting that there's this gaping hole in the repertoire in the American theater, which is Shakespeare. It's hardly ever done, compared to how often it's done in other companies, not just Britain. Someone from the Roundabout Theater Company - I said, "You never do Shakespeare." And he said, "Yes, we're not very good at it." And I thought, "What a terrible thing to say.".
