Actor Quotes
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When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
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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 no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.
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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
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I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.
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If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.
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To be a good actor you really have to want to act first.
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As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past and amazing things that they've done, I came across a book about Howard Hughes and he was set up as basically, the most multi-dimensional character I could ever come across. Often, people have tried to define him in biographies, but no one seems to be able to categorize him.
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be 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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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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So many (older) men and women are relegated to minor supporting roles, ... Christopher Walken. Look at him. He's a great actor and in a lot of films. But he's not starring in anything.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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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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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 want to work as hard as I can. But I also want six kids! It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.
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I don't love the theatre. I'm just not one of them.
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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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An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
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I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.
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There is a huge gap between the remuneration of an actor and actress.
