Actor Quotes
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I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.
Michael Douglas -
I got into film in an odd way - when I was 17 years old I participated in a Swedish film as an actor. I think every person at that age should get a role in a film, because during that time you want acceptance, and when you have a role in a film you become an important person. I think about that now, and that was my fantastic starting point.
Hannes Holm
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I recognize my physical limitations, but I am an actor who is able to transform himself into someone else.
Everett McGill -
I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
Tom Cruise -
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.
Arden Cho -
Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.
Anne Hathaway -
Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
Hattie McDaniel -
The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
Steve Buscemi
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I'm a great company actor, a great supporting actor. I serve the piece.
Noma Dumezweni -
I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan.
Judd Nelson -
I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.
Nick Mancuso -
My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.
Nolan Gerard Funk -
My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.
Scarlett Johansson -
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.
Nicolas Cage
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I wanted to be an actor, but only because I wanted to be everything, and that was the only way I could be a marine biologist as well.
Essie Davis -
I went to LA because my parents were there and somebody asked me if I wanted to be in a movie. It was easy, it wasn't easy to do, but I fell into it. I made a living as an actor for a long time, but I didn't think of myself as an actor, I thought I was a writer.
Hampton Fancher -
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.
Reece Thompson -
It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.
Nicole Sullivan -
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.
Emma Stone -
The lead actor, along with the director, plays a big role in what the vibe will be on set, and that's a huge responsibility.
Nicholas Hoult
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If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?
Heather Matarazzo -
Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.
Harry Morgan -
I fled my home town and did odd jobs, including things like re-designing old furniture, before I became an actor. Having said that, I don't think the story of my life is in any way remarkable. What is remarkable is how acting opportunities have come my way.
Harshvardhan Rane -
Certainly as an actor, half of your work is not going to end up on the screen anyway, because in the editorial process, they need to cut to the other actor in the scene. Very often, your best work ends up on the cutting room floor, because it just doesn't work with the overall narrative drive of the story.
Hart Bochner