Actor Quotes
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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."
Tom Cruise
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
Mary Astor
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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.".
Alan Cumming
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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?
Cary Grant
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Work always comes first as an actor.
Kat Graham
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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.
Ken Howard
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I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Asia Argento
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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.
Rebecca Hall
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I think, because of my background, which is slightly more exotic than the average British actor, I think, I sort of occupied this little niche quite early on of playing the foreign guy. It started way back at drama school, I played an Eastern European heavy, I played the Russian mobster. And I have done all those different ethnic roles, and I think it's partly because of my look, I think I've got an adaptable sort of nondescript ethnicity, which you can't quite pin down, but it's enough to kind of get a flavor of something.
Alfred Molina
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My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.
Jude Law
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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.
Peyton Reed
