Actor Quotes
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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 -
When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.
Steve Valentine
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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.
Nicholas Meyer -
You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.
Sharon Horgan -
It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.
Nicole Sullivan -
It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, "How would you like to be a horrible actor?" Then you say, "All right, that sounds good. I'll do that."
Norm MacDonald -
Being an actor is pretty much like being in the circus.
Stephen Dorff -
I feel like people who come out to Los Angeles hoping to be an actor give up too easily, and/or they don't put in the amount of time that it really does take.
Sterling Beaumon
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For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.
Harrison Ford -
Emma Watson is my kids' favorite actor on the planet. They never took me more seriously than when I was working with her.
Ethan Hawke -
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 -
A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.
Eric Bentley -
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 -
The audience's reaction is the most rewarding thing for an actor, especially me.
Nushrat Bharucha
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I think it's great when dramatic actors do lighter, funny roles.
Noureen DeWulf -
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 -
Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.
Anthony Anderson -
Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.
Harry Morgan -
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.
Joseph Mazzello -
It's always really cool as an actor to have a character that people want to see the best for.
Susan Kelechi Watson
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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.
Josh Hutcherson -
As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.
James Cromwell -
But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.
Ray Walston -
I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.
Nicole Kidman