Actor Quotes
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Confidence is the greatest gift for an actor.
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I still don't think I'm a good actor. The only reason I'm doing it is because I've got a lot of support behind me.
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An actor wants to get up every day and they can't think of anything particularly more fun to do than getting into a made-up situation and living it out as if it's real.
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You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.
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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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If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.
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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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Doing interviews is very different from working as an actor, because it's up to the journalist not only to understand what I'm trying to convey, but to convey that understanding through their process. And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context. Some people may not appreciate your work and some may be incredibly moved by it. So that isn't the concern. You have to do what you can do, and share what you feel is appropriate to share in the moment. And then, it's out of your control.
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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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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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Do you believe that the actor on the stage is really a villain? Let me ask you something else. If he isn't a villain, then is he a liar?
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I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.
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You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.
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Often you see a famous actor who says they produced something, when all they did was claim to have an idea at a dinner party and make three phone calls.
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The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.
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The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an assistant storyteller. I enjoy feeling useful to a team effort. It's my way of finding a use for myself, a utility in this world.
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I always go back and do theater. I love it. It keeps an actor improving in a way, it sort of keeps your craft alive, if that makes sense.
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I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.
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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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I want to be a man's man - not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.
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My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.
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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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I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.
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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.
