Actor Quotes
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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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Everybody around me was talented and gave everybody talent. Everybody painted. My mother had a beautiful voice. My father was a marvelous drawing-room actor.
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Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
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I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.
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I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.
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I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.
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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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The least amount of info actors get, the better. Actors are always like, 'What is my motivation for this?' You didn't write it. Just say the lines.
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If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?
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As an actor, I never go back and look at my work, anyway. The satisfaction comes in the doing.
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Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an actor.
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I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.
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Certainly as an actor, half of your work is not going to end up on the screen anyway, because in the editorial process, they need to cut to the other actor in the scene. Very often, your best work ends up on the cutting room floor, because it just doesn't work with the overall narrative drive of the story.
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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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Every once in a while as an actor, you do something that the kids really like.
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TV actors are doing great in Bollywood. We have our own market, our own fans, who love to see us on the big screen.
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Being an actor is pretty much like being in the circus.
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I wish that I had been in 'School of Rock' because, when I was younger, that movie was the movie. It really made me want to be an actor - that's so cheesy. But I remember seeing it when I was little and loving it so much, being like, 'I wish that I was in that.'
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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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Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.
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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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And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.
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I turned down plenty of films which proved to be hugely successful. And, of course, I've also had plenty of experiences where everyone thought we were doing brilliant work and it ended up pretty horrific. Same as any actor, really.
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[ Chadwick Boseman] is a remarkable actor, and he's a remarkable person.
