Actor Quotes
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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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In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.
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An actor gets to take a nap, but the director is working hard from dawn till midnight. I'm kind of lazy.
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My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.
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Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.
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The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.
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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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I became an actor because I love solving problems. I'm a big crossword puzzle person. I love doing research. One of the reasons I became Jewish is because I love text study.
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Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.
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From about ten, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I started doing vocal shows and stuff.
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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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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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I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.
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Being an actor helps me direct a little bit, when I do that, which I haven't been able to do that much, but I plan to in the future. There are a lot of reasons for that, but certainly because I feel like you know how to talk to actors, and you know what they need from you if you've been one yourself.
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Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
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When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.
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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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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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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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There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
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I like being able to marry the actor and the technician inside of me. It's really fulfilling. It exercises all of my creative muscles.
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If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.
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I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.
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I guess Richard Pryor was that good. I never saw him in a theater, but I imagine he was that good, because he was such a phenomenal actor.
