Actor Quotes
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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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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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As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
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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'm not an actor; I'm a judge.
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Every actor is a character actor.
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It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people.
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For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.
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As an actor, I usually try and keep my motivation within the context of what the character is going through.
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When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."
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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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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 just a very fortunate actor who has not been typecast.
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On being an actor ....nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.
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Don't worry about telling your actor what to do.
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Confidence is the greatest gift for an actor.
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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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As an actor, when you don't have a reference to pick from, you experiment, try out new things. And what comes of it eggs you on. You realize your capabilities and push your limits.
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It's the most unrealistic thing you can do to shoot a close-up, and it's the most unrealistic place you can be as a performer. And yet actors grouse about having to do visual effect shots, but they love doing close-ups.
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If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.
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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 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.
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An actor does not have anything to do with the business of screening films.
