Actor Quotes
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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.
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I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
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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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An actor is most vulnerable at the lowest point of his career.
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A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.
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In the beginning, I was actually embarrassed to admit that I wanted to be an actor.
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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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I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.
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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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It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.
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Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, “Wonderful. Just have a backup profession like welding.
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The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all.
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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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Physical comedy and musical theatre were never actually in my main focus at school. I was more of a dramatic actor. I always thought I was better at that.
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I'd rather not marry an actor because there isn't room in the house for two egos.
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The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.
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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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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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I realized early on that if I became an actor, I could play a writer and a sculptor and a painter and be all the things you just don't have time to be in your lifetime. I could get to learn about all of them.
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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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You can work with someone who's an amazing actor, and if they hate the role they're doing, it's uncomfortable to watch and uncomfortable to work with. When you're working with someone who loves what they're doing, it's just such a joy.
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Emma Watson is my kids' favorite actor on the planet. They never took me more seriously than when I was working with her.
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I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.
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I'm never going to be the lead actor guy. I'm real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It's what I do. It's like the circus. I ran away and joined it a long time ago.
