Actor Quotes
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I am an extremely selfless but, at the same time, supremely confident actor.
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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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It takes a good actor to sound excited every time.
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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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You can be more creative in acting by bringing your character to life and bringing a piece of you that wasn't there before. You could have five different actors play one role, and all five of them would be so different because each person brings a different piece of them into 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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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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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 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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I do the same thing for myself (as an actor) that I do for others.
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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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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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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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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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My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.
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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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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 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 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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I don't really view myself as an actor.
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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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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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I'm a great company actor, a great supporting actor. I serve the piece.
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It is very essential as an actor to be a perfectionist and have a knack for doing different roles over a period of time to keep their fans entertained.
