Actor Quotes
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I went to LA because my parents were there and somebody asked me if I wanted to be in a movie. It was easy, it wasn't easy to do, but I fell into it. I made a living as an actor for a long time, but I didn't think of myself as an actor, I thought I was a writer.
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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'm an actor for hire. It's important not to forget that you're disposable....When you have that mentality, you fight for the jobs you want.
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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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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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My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.
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If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.
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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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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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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 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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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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To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.
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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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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
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Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
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Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.
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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 can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true.
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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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What I'm interested in as an actor is exploring universes that I have not come across before. It's interesting to me to be able to discover new things. I do like fantasies, and I like when film is inspiring and it puts creative ideas into the minds of the audience.
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I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.
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Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
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From the time I was a child, I wanted to be an actor.
