Actor Quotes
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I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character.
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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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An actor without an audience is rehearsing.
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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.
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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 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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A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there.
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It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.
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I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.
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I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.
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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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I'm a physical actor in that I start with a physical sketch of the character. I find it easier to find inspiration from the outside in. If I find the character's tensions and the way he carries himself or looks, that's going to affect how I talk. So that's how I start to create that person.
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Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series in Andy Griffith Show in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.
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Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.
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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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You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long, comedy is played by an incomparable actor.
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Obviously when you're a child actor, you have zero inhibitions. You don't care. You don't get introverted thinking people are looking at you funny.
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That's really just the worst part of life really, you get bracketed somewhere and the next thing you know people are saying, 'No. No. That's not the type. Get me so and so.' I'm not a type. I'm an actor.
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I think you get the most honest performances when an actor shows up to set with their lines memorized. That's a very important thing that a lot of people seem to forget.
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Every actor is alive because of her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.
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Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.
