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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What I normally do as an actor in playing different roles, I just have to do in a span of three seconds sometimes, so I think I'm lucky that I've been doing it so long that I can do it rather quickly.
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As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers.
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I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.
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Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.
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Chadwick Boseman work as an actor, I think, is truly remarkable, and I had a great time working with him.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people.
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Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.
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It's all about whatever enriches you. If you decide to go the domestic route and get married and all those things, it makes you a better actor.
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You want the actor to be happy with the movie. You really want the actor to think they did a good job and all that.
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As an actor in-between jobs, it can be hard to stay motivated when you feel like you future is always in someone else's hands. You are always waiting for someone to look at you and say "YES."
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A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.
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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.
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As an actor, doing animation is definitely on the list of most actors because it is such a freeing, fun, different experience than being on camera. There's just something different about it that's not more fun, but a different sort of fun.
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I am the most successful unsuccessful actor in New York. And I guess with that, maybe apparent only to myself, there started to be a very subtle but unmistakable whiff of entitlement, bitterness, jealousy. I was not respecting the work.
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After a while, the person who knows the character best is you, the actor.
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If you're an actor, go out and act.
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It was like there's got to be some way to stay working and stay productive in Los Angeles. TV is that kind of thing for an actor. Unless you get stuck in one of these shows where you have to go to Vancouver.
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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'd like to be the next Oprah financially, but I'm not a TV actor. I'm not someone with an entertainment background, I'm a cop. And I'm not afraid to go anywhere and get down and dirty.
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To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.
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My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.
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I've always like sort of, as an actor, I'm drawn to exploring how we are as human beings in given situations and how we act and how we react and what makes us tick.
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As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.
