Actor Quotes
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It's always nice when you get a chance to actually work with the other actor. It just brings the scene to life, in a way that's not as easy to replicate on your own.
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The audience's reaction is the most rewarding thing for an actor, especially me.
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As an actor you're only as good as the things you're offered. And there just weren't any female directors offering me things. So when you dissect that, you realize there aren't women offering you things because they don't have the opportunities. I work to raise money for women's cancers; I use my voice for violence against women.
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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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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.
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It takes a good actor to sound excited every time.
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I realised after doing 'Tanu Weds Manu' that I had become fat and was not performing to the mark. I realised that I had become a terrible actor. I did 'Jodi Breakers,' which did not do well. So, I moved away from the film industry and lived with the common man to know where I was lacking and what do they want from an actor.
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For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all!
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The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.
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As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful.
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My advice to any actor who's playing, quote, unquote, "extra" to think of it more like Stanislavski did. It's not a small part. You are the lead in the movie, in your own movie.
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I am a greedy, selfish actor, and for me, my role is important.
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It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.
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"You are the actor, and I understand we already had our sit down, you explained your concept, your view," so I said, "Okay, I'm in your hands." That means that if you've got to nudge me a little bit to the right I move to the right, just from the pressure, weight, but you won't have to touch me at all. You can come and go "Okay, you want me over here a little bit more," so no pressure on us at all that's easy to do.
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My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.
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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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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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You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.
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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.
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What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.
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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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The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
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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.
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As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.
