Actor Quotes
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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
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I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.
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Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.
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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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As an actor, especially one who's worked in casting, you read so many scripts, and some of them are terrible. They're terrible and they're getting made, and some of them are good but the female role is just painful or underwritten. So after years of that, I had this idea kicking around in my head for two years, and I thought, I'm just going to start writing.
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I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.
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As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day. There are weeks I'm working and weeks I'm not. People think it must be great to have all that time off, but you'd be surprised how quickly that grass would become greener. The idle brain is the devil's playground.
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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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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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Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
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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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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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An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want to put you in a little box.
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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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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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I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time.
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A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
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I guess I've always wanted to create my own stories, but writing was one of those things where I thought that I would never actually do it. I respected writers too much, and what they do, to think that I was one of them - and I still feel that way a lot of the time. I still feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer. I'm like, "No, I'm an actor who writes sometimes."
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I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.
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I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.
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An actor does not have anything to do with the business of screening films.
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It wasn't like I ever said, 'I want to be an actor.' I was in the right place at the right time. I went to a local drama group because I found football on the weekends too cold - which is highly ironic because I've had some of the coldest experiences of my life filming 'Game of Thrones.'
