Actor Quotes
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Even though I never really had to pound the pavement as an actor, I always worked really hard. But, at the same time, I always felt like people thought that I didn't have to struggle even though I was struggling.
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You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.
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I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.
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IMDb publishes the actual dates of birth of thousands of actors without their consent, most of them not celebrities but rank-and-file actors whose names are unknown to the general public.
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You don't want to bring an actor in and force them into a performance. You want their input. You want their creative thoughts.
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Wrrite, wrrite, Lapochka, why you don’t wrrite?” and assure me that a horse, even with four legs, stumbles. I found it difficult to explain to her what I was writing. “It’s about Colley Cibber,” I said. “He was an actor, playwright and poet.” “Also poet?” Varya asked suspiciously. “Who he? Pushkin?”
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I can't imagine myself not being an actor.
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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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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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I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic.
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
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Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.
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I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.
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My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.
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What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.
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My ideal would be to hop both sides of the Atlantic to work, as I'm sure every actor would.
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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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Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.
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Being an actor, I never think I'm going to get the part. It's always a thrill when things go the way you hope they will.
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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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Knowing that my granddad was a highly respected actor wasn't necessarily intimidating, but it definitely meant there was always a pressure to live up to his reputation. I think that's why acting wasn't something I even considered doing, as a kid.
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I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.
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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
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Often you see a famous actor who says they produced something, when all they did was claim to have an idea at a dinner party and make three phone calls.
