Actor Quotes
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As an actor, rejection is a big part of it, and I've had a lot of it. So when there's something that you really want to do, it's so great to have someone to be a part of a team as great as this team is.
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Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.
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I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day. There are weeks I'm working and weeks I'm not. People think it must be great to have all that time off, but you'd be surprised how quickly that grass would become greener. The idle brain is the devil's playground.
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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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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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A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long, comedy is played by an incomparable actor.
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When I look at myself as a younger actor, I see what a tight ass I was. I had a pretty big shadow because of my father and the comparisons. I was self-conscious about that. Now I realize there was nothing to be worried about.
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Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.
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No actor wants to be typecast, so you always want to make good, careful choices.
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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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A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
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I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.
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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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As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.
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Theater really is an actor's medium: you're on stage with no director anymore, whereas in film very rarely do you get much rehearsal other than running through the scene very quickly. Then everyone comes in and shoots it.
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As an actor, you're never really in control of the product. I think the goal is to create what you want. And if you can get as close as you can get to the creation of something, it starts with development.
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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 think being able to juggle time and mind space comes with the trajectory of being an actor.
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For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.
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Don't worry about telling your actor what to do.
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I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.
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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 think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.
