Actor Quotes
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I try to be a good, diligent actor.
Moon Bloodgood -
When you're an actor and you walk into a theatre where your movie is playing, you're kinda proud. "Look at my skill!"
James Hetfield Metallica
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We must recognize the eloquence of our passions and refuse to be taken in. Instead of saying, 'That false friend always did despise me,' say: 'In my present state of agitation, I can't see clearly, I can't judge clearly; I am only a tragic actor who is declaiming for his own ears.' Then you will see the lights in the theater go out for lack of an audience, and the brilliant sets will be nothing more than painted cardboard.
Emile Chartier -
I'm just a very fortunate actor who has not been typecast.
Essie Davis -
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.
Nolan North -
[ Chadwick Boseman] is a remarkable actor, and he's a remarkable person.
Harrison Ford -
It is very important for an actor to look physically attractive.
R. Madhavan -
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.
Nicholas Offerman
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If you want to be an actor, you must have total, ruthless commitment to your art. Don't be ambitious for fame or TV or movies. Art is a jealous mistress and will brook no competitors. Study all the time. Never stop reading. Never stop learning speeches. It will fill you up - define and refine you.
Steven Berkoff -
Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.
Sean Connery -
The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.
Benjamin Ávila -
I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.
Sean Penn -
My music doesn't exist in a vacuum; there's a script and there's an actor and it's about to come together.
Ayshay -
I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.
Steve Buscemi
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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.
Michael Imperioli -
To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.
Sarah Bernhardt -
I don't really view myself as an actor.
Simon Bird -
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.
Andrew Dice Clay -
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.
Scott Ellis -
As an actor, to be able to experiment and grow and be pushed, it's been phenomenal for me, and it's given me confidence to move forward.
Josh Holloway
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I'd rather not marry an actor because there isn't room in the house for two egos.
Susan Strasberg -
It's the most unrealistic thing you can do to shoot a close-up, and it's the most unrealistic place you can be as a performer. And yet actors grouse about having to do visual effect shots, but they love doing close-ups.
Robert Zemeckis -
When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas.
Jean-Louis Trintignant -
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.
Jon Huertas