Actor Quotes
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The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
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As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.
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I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.
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What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.
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As an actor, it's very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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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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A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.
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As an actor I can sort of smell a duff note, that isn't full of that much conviction. My worst thing with directors is when I know more than them about the character.
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From an actor's point of view, if you are watching something, and you see improv, you know it. Because of your experience, you just bloody know that wasn't written.
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As an actor just learning the craft, you literally do a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini, and you walk away a better actor.
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It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.
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I never saw myself as a character actor or a lead actor; I've only seen myself as just an actor.
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In the beginning, I was actually embarrassed to admit that I wanted to be an actor.
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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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The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.
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I am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.
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I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you're going and you can take them anywhere you want to.
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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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Why did I decide to become an actor ? I decided because my brother helped me decide. I knew nothing about the entertainment industry, and never thought I actually would. I never had an interest in it. I grew up not watching many movies or rarely watching TV.
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I recognize my physical limitations, but I am an actor who is able to transform himself into someone else.
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I am just an actor, and this is my job. What I am doing is not extraordinary.
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There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.
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I think... as an actor, you never want to overspeak about something because, frankly, you want people to be excited about it but still have relatively low expectations so that people will feel better about it.
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As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.
