Actor Quotes
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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.
Eric Lange
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Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
Nicholas Lea
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Confidence is the greatest gift for an actor.
Will Poulter
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Film is definitely a director's medium. They're responsible for the look and everything, and you're a part of that process as an actor, and you try to contribute to the story. But I think it might sound a little pretentious for me to say I think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as a creative person.
Owen Wilson
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Any actor who's onstage... at least this is what I do... I'm always using 120% on whatever the heck I'm doing. I have to make an impression with all the bursts of things I do in this show... taking the picture, shutting the door, opening the door... as long as I'm making people laugh at those moments, I feel like I'm accomplishing something.
Andy Karl
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As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.
Scott Ellis
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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.
Bette Davis
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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."
Erin Maya Darke
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There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.
Marilyn Monroe
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I have learnt three things from Barry John which are applicable to life, too: Don't expect anything from another actor, one shouldn't judge, and one shouldn't block things.
Harshvardhan Rane
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I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.
Mila Kunis
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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
Marilyn Monroe
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It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.
Nicole Kidman
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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.
Amelia Fiona "Minnie" Driver
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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.
Sean Penn
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I'm just an actor who happened to love these [Marvel] comics when I was a kid, and got to rediscover them.
Clark Gregg
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Being an actor helps me direct a little bit, when I do that, which I haven't been able to do that much, but I plan to in the future. There are a lot of reasons for that, but certainly because I feel like you know how to talk to actors, and you know what they need from you if you've been one yourself.
Joseph Mazzello
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As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.
Paul McGann
