Actor Quotes
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You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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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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Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.
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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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The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.
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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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When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
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As an actor, if I just did sci-fi, I think it would get limiting, like if you just play lawyers or doctors, over and over. It's a lot more fun, if you get to play lots of different types of characters.
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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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When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.
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I don't love the theatre. I'm just not one of them.
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I've wanted to come to the U.S. since I was 8 years old. Every single year, my mom and I watched the Oscars. I always told her, 'I want to do that when I grow up. I want to tell stories; I want to be an actor and director.'
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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
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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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Jason Alexander is a committed actor, he went from working on a show about nothing to actually doing nothing.
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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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I've been having these dinner parties at my house in L.A. for years that turn into charades parties. I'm so good at breaking stuff down into syllables and sounds. If I were to be doing anything else besides being an actor, I would be a professional charades player. I'm not sure if it exists, but if it didn't, I'll create it.
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People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.
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As an actor, I feel there isn't much to explore on TV. So, if I get better work as a host, why wouldn't I do it?
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I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.
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The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.
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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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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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My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.
