Actor Quotes
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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 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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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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It's always hard as an actor I think to be just on the set and have the kind of confidence to be like, 'Yeah, I did that. That went perfectly. That's great.' That's more confidence than I have.
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Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
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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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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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There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.
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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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I always knew I wanted to be an actor. I was talented in college but not the most talented. But I knew I wanted to do it, and that intention got me there and kept me there.
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As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.
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I wanted to be an actor, but only because I wanted to be everything, and that was the only way I could be a marine biologist as well.
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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when Holmes became a specialist in crime.
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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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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
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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 couldn't have ever married an actor. They have a childishness carried into an age when maturity should have set in.
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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 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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From the time I was a child, I wanted to be an actor.
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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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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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There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.
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Many an actor does the stage more ham than good.
