Actor Quotes
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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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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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After a while, the person who knows the character best is you, the actor.
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It takes a good actor to sound excited every time.
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Do you believe that the actor on the stage is really a villain? Let me ask you something else. If he isn't a villain, then is he a liar?
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As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.
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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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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".
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It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.
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I was very conscious of the actor; watched what he did.
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I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?
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If you're an actor, go out and act.
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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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As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.
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In theatre, you learn the story is more important than the actor.
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"You are the actor, and I understand we already had our sit down, you explained your concept, your view," so I said, "Okay, I'm in your hands." That means that if you've got to nudge me a little bit to the right I move to the right, just from the pressure, weight, but you won't have to touch me at all. You can come and go "Okay, you want me over here a little bit more," so no pressure on us at all that's easy to do.
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As an actor you're only as good as the things you're offered. And there just weren't any female directors offering me things. So when you dissect that, you realize there aren't women offering you things because they don't have the opportunities. I work to raise money for women's cancers; I use my voice for violence against women.
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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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I don't really view myself as an actor.
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The cool thing about doing a play is that the final interpretation of a piece is turned over to the actors.
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The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an assistant storyteller. I enjoy feeling useful to a team effort. It's my way of finding a use for myself, a utility in this world.
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My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.
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I was lucky to grow up with phenomenal parents who were into talking about things. When something hit me hard as a kid, we'd just talk about it. I'm usually pretty open about what's going on with me. I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult.
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Chadwick Boseman work as an actor, I think, is truly remarkable, and I had a great time working with him.
