Actor Quotes
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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 mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.
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As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day.
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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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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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In the beginning, I was actually embarrassed to admit that I wanted to be an actor.
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I am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.
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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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It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.
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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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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 never saw myself as a character actor or a lead actor; I've only seen myself as just an actor.
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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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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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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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There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.
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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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You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.
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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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I recognize my physical limitations, but I am an actor who is able to transform himself into someone else.
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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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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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I've been very lucky as an actor. I have worked all the time. Some shows I do, they get cancelled. Some, they're critically acclaimed, and then they get cancelled. And some, I'm in the last season of this or that. But I can't complain about my career.
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Every director is always directing around the play. If you have an actor who really doesn't get the character well enough, you have to direct the play around that character. You have to make choices with that actor. If you have an actor that really doesn't get the role and has certain visions of the role, sometimes you have to direct around that actor.
