Actor Quotes
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As an actor, especially one who's worked in casting, you read so many scripts, and some of them are terrible. They're terrible and they're getting made, and some of them are good but the female role is just painful or underwritten. So after years of that, I had this idea kicking around in my head for two years, and I thought, I'm just going to start writing.
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I don't really view myself as an actor.
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To be a good actor, you need to be able to emote with your body.
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Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.
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For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all!
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I believe there is a shallow side to every actor, who craves to be presented well.
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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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I'm just a very fortunate actor who has not been typecast.
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I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been a voice actor.
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Regardless of what level the actor's at, you always learn something. And you can learn something from bad actors as well, who I've also worked with in the past.
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An actor does not have anything to do with the business of screening films.
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I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.
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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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He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
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As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.
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I just love the whole art form of acting, of being in front of a camera and playing different things. Not that I would ever say I'm the greatest actor in the world, but I am capable of playing different kinds of roles that emotionally I could get into.
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On being an actor ....nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.
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I'd rather not marry an actor because there isn't room in the house for two egos.
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When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.
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I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.
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I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.
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I definitely understood the feeling of moving to Los Angeles and having a dream to be an actor in films and to get to be a part of things that I loved and inspire people in some way.
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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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I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.
