Actor Quotes
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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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But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.
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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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I think every actor should direct at least once and vice versa.
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Any film that you make, it's a very high end game of musical chairs ... but that's just the nature of filmmaking. You do the dance with a certain actor.
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You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.
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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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As an actor, you always want to root for your characters.
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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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The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.
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I still act. It's in my blood. I'll always be an actor.
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You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.
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You can ask any Latin actor: inevitably, if they get a part meant for a white guy, producers will change the character's name to sound more Latin.
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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 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 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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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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As an actor, your main goal is to tell the truth.
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To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.
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The cool thing about doing a play is that the final interpretation of a piece is turned over to the actors.
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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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I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.
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And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.
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Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
