Actor Quotes
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It's all about whatever enriches you. If you decide to go the domestic route and get married and all those things, it makes you a better 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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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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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
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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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It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
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I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.
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My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.
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The lead actor, along with the director, plays a big role in what the vibe will be on set, and that's a huge responsibility.
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You can't plan your character arc - you have a vague idea, maybe, but I'm constantly surprised. Sometimes actors in films will play the ending of the movie, or even the middle, and you know where it's going - as an audience member you can read the 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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Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
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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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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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I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.
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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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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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When you're an actor and you walk into a theatre where your movie is playing, you're kinda proud. "Look at my skill!"
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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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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'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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For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.
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You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.
