Actor Quotes
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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
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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 always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.
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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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I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.
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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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A struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.
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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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Failure is always present as an actor. I make my living by taking chances. If I'm not risking something, then I'm not doing my job, so I'm constantly failing. In fact, I'm trying to fail bigger. I try to focus on the positive, the moment, and try to realize where I'm at in an attempt to understand the failure.
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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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The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.
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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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Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
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If a film becomes successful, the actor is blamed for being commercial and not having a true love for movies. When we do serious films, we will be blamed for not planning our career properly. I believe that what one should do is to make good cinema and try to make it successful.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words... I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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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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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To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.
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I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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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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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For the longest time I have had so much belief and confidence in myself, which as an actor you need, because the entertainment industry is incredible competitive, brutal, and unpredictable just when you start to think you know what's going on.
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It's true to say that I'm a budding young actor. But I'd rather get my name out there because of my acting rather than who I'm being photographed with.
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The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.
