Actor Quotes
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Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series in Andy Griffith Show in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.
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Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.
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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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The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.
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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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To be a good actor, you need to be able to emote with your body.
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I do the same thing for myself (as an actor) that I do for others.
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I am an extremely selfless but, at the same time, supremely confident actor.
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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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If you lost a major actor because of a broken jaw, the project collapses.
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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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I'm an actor. I'm just a creative person. I figure if I wasn't a good writer, I'd take to renovating homes... not renovating... decorating homes.
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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 am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor get to be the hero?
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Every actor is alive because of her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.
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You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.
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The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get wonderful cooperation out of the lens if you are true, but God help you if you are not.
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Obviously when you're a child actor, you have zero inhibitions. You don't care. You don't get introverted thinking people are looking at you funny.
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We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.
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An actor without an audience is rehearsing.
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Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.
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Oh, I like going down the rabbit hole. You know, that's kind of my job. When you play Macbeth, you gotta dive down that one. The trick is figuring out how to do it with love and a sense of humor so you can pop back out again. But, kind of the actor's job is to go down the rabbit hole.
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It is very essential as an actor to be a perfectionist and have a knack for doing different roles over a period of time to keep their fans entertained.
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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.'
