Actor Quotes
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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 can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.
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George Clooney is a super-human, he's just such an amazing human being, he taught me how to be a better person and a better actor!
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I think there's actually a benefit to working with teen actors: they've got such boundless energy, and everybody is willing to try different things.
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Jason Alexander is a committed actor, he went from working on a show about nothing to actually doing nothing.
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Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.
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There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.
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I've always looked to that play, 'Virginia Woolf,' for a cue - as far as any cue I might need as an actor for inspiration or as a writer.
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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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Muhlenberg is the school that made me and shaped me into the actor I am today.
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.
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Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
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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 personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being a reader as a kid and being transported by literature and art. It had nothing – zero – to do with anything resembling fame.
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I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.
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Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.
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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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IMDb publishes the actual dates of birth of thousands of actors without their consent, most of them not celebrities but rank-and-file actors whose names are unknown to the general public.
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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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There is a huge gap between the remuneration of an actor and actress.
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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.
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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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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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When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material.
