Actor Quotes
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No actor wants to be typecast, so you always want to make good, careful choices.
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As a native actor, you don't get that much chance to work in art, especially television.
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I want to be a little more dramatic nowadays. I definitely want something big and funny, but I look for things that can just have people see me in a different light and let me mature as both an entertainer and an actor and a comedian.
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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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It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.
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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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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 essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.
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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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A struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.
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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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Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
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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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I guess I've always wanted to create my own stories, but writing was one of those things where I thought that I would never actually do it. I respected writers too much, and what they do, to think that I was one of them - and I still feel that way a lot of the time. I still feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer. I'm like, "No, I'm an actor who writes sometimes."
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Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.
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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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Lately, I have realised that as an actor, I am representing certain aspirations to the world, and it's important that I respect the love people have for me.
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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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I think being able to juggle time and mind space comes with the trajectory of being an actor.
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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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Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her third gift is a passion to communicate the mysteries of the craft to which she has given her life. There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by her.
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Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.
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From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
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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.
