Actor Quotes
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I'm not an actor who approaches films doing a lot of research. I do zero research, unless it's a film where I'm playing a mock version of someone who already existed. Then, you've got to do a lot of research.
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My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You don't resist what a director is giving you.
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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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Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.
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As an actor, you're never really in control of the product. I think the goal is to create what you want. And if you can get as close as you can get to the creation of something, it starts with development.
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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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Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.
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I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.
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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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It's always nice when you get a chance to actually work with the other actor. It just brings the scene to life, in a way that's not as easy to replicate on your own.
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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'
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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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I believe that a web series allows actors the freedom to express their views.
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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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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.
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It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.
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I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.
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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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Never equate yourself with whatever success may be and how fleeting that is. The only thing you can do every day is become a better actor. That's the only thing I have control over.
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I want to become actor not because I want money and become more famous. No I don't want that. It is not that l want stardom, I want to contribute to good cinema.
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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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As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.
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Muhlenberg is the school that made me and shaped me into the actor I am today.
