Actor Quotes
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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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Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
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I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
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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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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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It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.
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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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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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I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.
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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.
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The poor show of a film can be crucial in an actor's career. Maybe that is why some actors choose to act in a lot of films, so as not to be affected by a single hit or a flop.
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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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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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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'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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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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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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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 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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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'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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Actors are smart. They have to feel safe enough to fall and to get back up. My job is to make sure they don't get hurt.
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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.
