Actor Quotes
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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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As an actor, doing animation is definitely on the list of most actors because it is such a freeing, fun, different experience than being on camera. There's just something different about it that's not more fun, but a different sort of fun.
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A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
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It takes a good actor to sound excited every time.
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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.
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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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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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In theatre, you learn the story is more important than the actor.
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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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As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.
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I actually don't want to be an actor for the rest of my life. I'd like to go on to be a lawyer or a doctor, and I definitely would like to get into politics.
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My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You don't resist what a director is giving you.
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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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I'd be lying to you if I said at 8 I went up to my parents and said, 'Listen, I'm going to become an actor.' That was not the case.
Eugene Simon
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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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I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?
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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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I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
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I think that of musicals - especially the big, splashy ones - require an actor that's also part cheerleader, too, and that's really tough to do if it's not something that really grabs you and your heart's not in it.
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If you're an actor, go out and act.
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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 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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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've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.
