Actor Quotes
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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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As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.
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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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It's awesome when people even notice that I'm an actor.
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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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My husband, Steve Hamilton - an actor/producer and co-Director of the Southampton Playwriting Conference - and I had been working in the theatre in New York for many years.
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For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.
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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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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'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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If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.
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It takes a good actor to sound excited every time.
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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.
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When I work, I'm the actor. I'm going to do my job. I'm not going to direct the movie. If I wanted to direct it, I would direct it. I wanted J.J. Abrams to direct Mission: Impossible. I work with people that I respect. I expect them to do their jobs, and I will do mine. And I am there as a producer to help in any way, but no one makes a movie by themselves. It's a collaboration.
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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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I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
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As an actor, it's very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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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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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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If you're an actor, go out and act.
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The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
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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'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 -
"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.
