Actor Quotes
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I have to say from an actor's perspective, to work with a director who has been an actor through most of their career is a pleasure. They generally have a very deep understanding of the process of what you're doing, of how you are building and exploring the character.
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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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For the longest time I have had so much belief and confidence in myself, which as an actor you need, because the entertainment industry is incredible competitive, brutal, and unpredictable just when you start to think you know what's going on.
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I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.
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I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.
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As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.
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I think in terms of a career trajectory, it's good for people to be reminded that, in spite of seeing me a million times a day on a show for ten years playing the same character, I'm an actor, and actors like to play different people.
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If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.
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One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.
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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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It's all about whatever enriches you. If you decide to go the domestic route and get married and all those things, it makes you a better actor.
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I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.
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I'd be lying to you if I said at 8 I went up to my parents and said, 'Listen, I'm going to become an actor.' That was not the case.
Eugene Simon -
I'll always be an actor first. I grew up doing musical theater, so music and acting, to me, have always gone hand in hand. I'm going to be an actor first because it's my career, but music will always be a part of me.
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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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Any passionate actor, if he is spoon-fed, will deliver.
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Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.
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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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As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.
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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
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I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.
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There are a few things for the New York actor that you hope to one day cross off the bucket list. One of them was I got to do an episode of 'Blue Bloods,' which was really fun.
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I just love the whole art form of acting, of being in front of a camera and playing different things. Not that I would ever say I'm the greatest actor in the world, but I am capable of playing different kinds of roles that emotionally I could get into.
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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.
