Actor Quotes
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As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
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It is very essential as an actor to be a perfectionist and have a knack for doing different roles over a period of time to keep their fans entertained.
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I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.
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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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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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It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth.
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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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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 is very important for an actor to look physically attractive.
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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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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 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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It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does.
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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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"A good director is one that lets you improv," that's ridiculous. There's some actors who should not be improving and there are some scripts that should not be touched. I think it's just a case by case basis.
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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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As an actor, it's very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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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 -
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, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.
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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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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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You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.
