Actor Quotes
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I want to stretch myself as an actor.
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There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.
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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 was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
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Be in the moment as an actor and as a human being, and you're going to be happy.
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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 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'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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If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.
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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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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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I started as a child, in this PBS series 'Voyage of the Mimi,' which led to driving down to New York for 'Afterschool Special' auditions, which led to moving to Los Angeles. I wanted to be an actor. But in L.A., I got into film technology, and I was building cheap editing systems and would edit my friend's acting reels.
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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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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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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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...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of 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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I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.
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I don’t want Salman Khan to be remembered as a star, actor. That is not my priority in life.
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One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.
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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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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.
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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.
