Actor Quotes
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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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I am a great observer of things, and I do it all the time. I store stuff; I use it as an actor; that sort of recall, of emotional memory and images of things, just tastes of things.
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I believe there is a shallow side to every actor, who craves to be presented well.
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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.
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I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.
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I think one of the things you have to be aware of as an actor is that if you come on the set and see the director standing there mouthing all the words while a scene is going on, that's usually a very bad sign because it means the director has already shot the scene in his head. He knows exactly the rhythm and the nuances that he wants delivered in the line and you're not going to dissuade him.
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I think it's just growth, and development, timing. I've been fortunate to be around for a long time. Allowed me to get better as an actor. Allowed me to play better roles.
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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.
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It is very important for an actor to look physically attractive.
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I actually don't want to be an actor for the rest of my life. I'd like to go on to be a lawyer or a doctor, and I definitely would like to get into politics.
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Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.
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When I choose a role, I look for that spark that tells me it's going to work. Is the role fresh? What does it have for the actor in me? Those are the only things any actor should be concerned about, really.
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An actor is most vulnerable at the lowest point of his career.
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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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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.
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My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.
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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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If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don't want to ever be that.
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As an actor, I would never agree if a newcomer doesn't give me a final word on the script. If it is well-written, then you need not speak to me. I will speak for you.
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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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To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.
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I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.
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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.
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Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.
