Actor Quotes
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An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.
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A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
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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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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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An actor wants to get up every day and they can't think of anything particularly more fun to do than getting into a made-up situation and living it out as if it's real.
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As an actor, you always find your way. You have whatever preparation techniques you use, and you just go with the scene when you're on set. You can only plan so much when you're working, because things have to come naturally in the scene.
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Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.
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Every actor is a character actor.
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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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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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If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to denigrate expensive movies. I dont want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished.
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I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.
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I always go back and do theater. I love it. It keeps an actor improving in a way, it sort of keeps your craft alive, if that makes sense.
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I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.
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One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.
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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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You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.
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Don't worry about telling your actor what to do.
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It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.
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I am an extremely selfless but, at the same time, supremely confident actor.
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You can always tell when an actor has grown a 'rhino skin' to protect themselves. It comes across on screen, and they aren't believable. They're dead in the eyes because they've been told a million times that they're the greatest actor that ever lived. If you don't realise what's happening, and get your feet back on the ground, it can be the worst thing that ever happens to you.
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I have been an actor now for 40 years having worked in over 10 countries and three languages.
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The challenge of a revival is how to bring something fresh. The reward is the opportunity to add different flourishes. You're dealing with different actors, designers and a different time.
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I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.
