Actor Quotes
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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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For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.
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No actor wants to be typecast, so you always want to make good, careful choices.
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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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Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.
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Confidence is the greatest gift for an actor.
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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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The heartbreak that it might not happen wasn't something that I wanted to face with any more weight. Then, when I got the call to go ahead I never thought for a second as I was approaching it who I would get - that would come later. Again, I think the idea was that I now had the rights to make the movie and I can start writing it but if I have to wait another 10 years before I find an actor that's right for it, I'd be very happy to do that.
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In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.
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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 am an extremely selfless but, at the same time, supremely confident actor.
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I was sure that none of the other wonderful actors I had met for this role would have such truthfulness, would have such courage and self-awareness of auto-destruction as River does.
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To be a good actor, you need to be able to emote with your body.
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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 think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.
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There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.
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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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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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New York is a great place to be as an unrepresented actor because there are so many 'open auditions' that you can show up for without being submitted by an agent.
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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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Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.
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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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Gambles are the most fun because it's part of being an actor or being a creative person. It's risky only in the vulnerable sense. And then outside of that, no one gets too hurt by it.
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He's such a good actor and he loves the Groucho character so much he made a study of him.
