Actor Quotes
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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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I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
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I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.
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When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.
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That's one of the things we're most excited about, really, is just allowing this great, Oscar-nominated actor, giving him material to play in one of his signature roles.
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I want to become actor not because I want money and become more famous. No I don't want that. It is not that l want stardom, I want to contribute to good cinema.
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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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It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.
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I have been an actor now for 40 years having worked in over 10 countries and three languages.
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As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.
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The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.
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One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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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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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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If my son was an actor I would tell him, "Don't let people know as much about you as I let people know about me." Because I think professionally, it's an easier road. That would be something I would tell a young actor. But it's cool.
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I studied voiceover, and I studied acting and I got my first series and my first agent a week out of high school. And it took me about five years of hit-or-miss auditioning and booking on occasion before I could support myself totally as an actor.
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He's such a good actor and he loves the Groucho character so much he made a study of him.
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An actor without an audience is rehearsing.
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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Over time as an actor, your life with a project can be so short lived because you come on, you do it, and then you're done. You have no control, no say, and all of a sudden there's all of this distance between the work you've put into something and the product as you see it appear on-screen.
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I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time about that, which I think is the wrong way to teach a young actor. They just made me really, really self-conscious about everything I did, which is the opposite of what you need to be when you're filming.
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You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.
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As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.
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Remain true to yourself while practicing this business of being an actor. And it is a business.
