Actor Quotes
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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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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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The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.
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I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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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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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'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 don't love the theatre. I'm just not one of them.
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Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
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I consider myself as a director's actor, so I'm open to work with filmmakers from across the country and even abroad.
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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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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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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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Jason Alexander is a committed actor, he went from working on a show about nothing to actually doing nothing.
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You don't want to bring an actor in and force them into a performance. You want their input. You want their creative thoughts.
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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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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
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Knowing that my granddad was a highly respected actor wasn't necessarily intimidating, but it definitely meant there was always a pressure to live up to his reputation. I think that's why acting wasn't something I even considered doing, as a kid.
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I sang "Patience" by Guns N' Roses for my sixth grade talent show and I wanted to be an actor when I was younger. It was all very, very theatrical. It was only later that I separated the two and thought of myself as quite the opposite of an actor.
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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
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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 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.
