Actor Quotes
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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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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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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 like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan.
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I was an anguished little girl with just one wish: to become an actor. I debuted in live theater at 14 with Dario Niccodemi's 'La Nemica.'
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My ideal would be to hop both sides of the Atlantic to work, as I'm sure every actor would.
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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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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'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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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.
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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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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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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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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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I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.
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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 don't really view myself as an actor.
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I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater wherever they would let me. Finally, I moved out here to Los Angeles and got on a show.
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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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Whatever it is that you are doing as an actor, if it frightens you, if you're scared of it, you need to do it.
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Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid.
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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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You can always tell when an actor has grown a 'rhino skin' to protect themselves. It comes across on screen, and they aren't believable. They're dead in the eyes because they've been told a million times that they're the greatest actor that ever lived. If you don't realise what's happening, and get your feet back on the ground, it can be the worst thing that ever happens to you.
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I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.
