Actor Quotes
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I never thought I was salable. I learned in my second year of drama school that I was not a leading man - I was a character actor. So I thought, "I'd better be the best character actor around.
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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 don't love the theatre. I'm just not one of them.
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When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material.
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A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.
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I want to stretch myself as an actor.
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At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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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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As an actor you always wanna protect your character. You wanna make them loveable, likeable. You wanna make them strong, you want them to be the hero, you want them to always be right.
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For years, I kept the two separate: Michael Horse the artist and Michael Horse the actor. I like the acting, but I'm an artist; that's my identity.
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I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.
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When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
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Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
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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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An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
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I cannot expect actor Prakash Raj, who is versatile across languages, to express solidarity with a cause.
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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
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Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.
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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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The director Denis Villeneuve is actually an actor he's from Sons of Anarchy and he's a great character actor and he's also a screenwriter he wrote What Lies Beneath. It blows my mind to see when people from one sector move to another and excel. I think Sicario was one of the best directed and written films. It did get [a nomination for best] cinematography, though.
