Actor Quotes
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I'm just a very fortunate actor who has not been typecast.
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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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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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I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.
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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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An actor without an audience is rehearsing.
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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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I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor.
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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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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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I'm not an actor; I'm a judge.
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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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I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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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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For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit somewhere and tell somebody why you should feel this way or that way about my character does not feel like my responsibility. It feels like the responsibility of the writer and the person who created it.
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I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.
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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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From about ten, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I started doing vocal shows and stuff.
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I want to cast correctly, and then I want them to live on screen. If I cast the wrong actor, I'm screwed. But, if I cast the right actor, it really works out. The casting process is so important.
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Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.
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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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The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
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If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.
