Actor Quotes
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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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Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
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Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
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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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The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.
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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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When I work, I'm the actor. I'm going to do my job. I'm not going to direct the movie. If I wanted to direct it, I would direct it. I wanted J.J. Abrams to direct Mission: Impossible. I work with people that I respect. I expect them to do their jobs, and I will do mine. And I am there as a producer to help in any way, but no one makes a movie by themselves. It's a collaboration.
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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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Jason Alexander is a committed actor, he went from working on a show about nothing to actually doing nothing.
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I don't love the theatre. I'm just not one of them.
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I always set out to just work, as an actor, and try to do as many different things as I possibly could, and not be too selective or too careful. I think just working is fun.
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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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I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.
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The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
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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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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
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When an actor … is lying on the ground, it is a whole nation lying down. And when he rises slowly up, you see the play of his muscles. After that he comes and goes, lifts things, throws them. He’s self-reliant man, and there’s his rapport with Promethean art.
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People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
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I stay healthy - I mean, I've got a sports background and an athletic background. I was in competitive sports since the age of five. I was a personal trainer before I was an actor and a personal trainer for the first few years while I was acting and getting my thesis.
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When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.
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I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
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If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.
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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.
