Actor Quotes
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People always ask me, 'Hey, what's Matt Damon like?' He's just a dude, just a really good person and one hell of an actor.
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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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An actor without an audience is rehearsing.
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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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I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.
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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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When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.
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When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.
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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'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.
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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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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
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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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Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there.
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You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.
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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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When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.
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As a young actor, it's important to see how the greatest in the industry work... diva behavior is never it.
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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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He used to be, actually a very successful actor. ... One of the things that's encouraging about that is it represents citizen politicians, people that aren't career politicians.
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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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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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Being an actor, you have to be working even when you're not working. You never really get to relax because anytime you're relaxing in between jobs, you're just worried that you're not going to get another job.
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It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.
