Actor Quotes
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Remain true to yourself while practicing this business of being an actor. And it is a business.
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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 always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.
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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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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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I just love the whole art form of acting, of being in front of a camera and playing different things. Not that I would ever say I'm the greatest actor in the world, but I am capable of playing different kinds of roles that emotionally I could get into.
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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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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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A struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.
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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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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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I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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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You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.
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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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I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.
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The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get wonderful cooperation out of the lens if you are true, but God help you if you are not.
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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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My acting experience has been a benefit. What I learned from directors is how to listen to and talk with actors. I know how they think and what they need.
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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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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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Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
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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.
