Actor Quotes
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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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I want to be a man's man - not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.
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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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As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.
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After a while, the person who knows the character best is you, the actor.
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As an actor, I never go back and look at my work, anyway. The satisfaction comes in the doing.
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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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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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I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.
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In theatre, you learn the story is more important than the actor.
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Being an actor helps me direct a little bit, when I do that, which I haven't been able to do that much, but I plan to in the future. There are a lot of reasons for that, but certainly because I feel like you know how to talk to actors, and you know what they need from you if you've been one yourself.
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I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.
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You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.
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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.
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As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.
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I think Deepika is the best looking girl and actor in Bollywood.
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It is very important for an actor to look physically attractive.
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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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One of the great bonuses of being a film actor is that I get to go to different places, meet inspiring people and learn different things. So all those details add up.
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What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.
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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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My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.
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My parents always instilled in me this feeling of wanting to be a normal person. I never moved out to L.A. as a kid and got into that scene and that whole thing that happens to kid actors that's the reason they go off the deep end.
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I remember hearing a good story about Jack Nicholson working with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining 1980. Nicholson was saying that, as an actor, you always want to try to make things real. And believable. When he was working with Kubrick, he finished a take and said, "I feel like that was real." And Kubrick said, "Yes, it's real, but it's not interesting".
