Actor Quotes
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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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As an actor, it's very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.
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One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.
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I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time.
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To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
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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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I think... as an actor, you never want to overspeak about something because, frankly, you want people to be excited about it but still have relatively low expectations so that people will feel better about it.
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My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as 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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A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.
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But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.
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It takes a good actor to sound excited every time.
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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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There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
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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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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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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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I'm not an actor who approaches films doing a lot of research. I do zero research, unless it's a film where I'm playing a mock version of someone who already existed. Then, you've got to do a lot of research.
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As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.
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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'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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I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.
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A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
