Actor Quotes
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I'm a New York person. I've never gone out of the way to speak to the press to change my persona - I probably should have. It's too late now. But when I first started I was like, "I'm gonna stay this way. I'm gonna be this way," and I continued to. I probably should have sugarcoated it like, "This is not really the way I am - I'm an actor."
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I think I'm much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It's a much higher scale of fear, raising kids.
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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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As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.
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I got into film in an odd way - when I was 17 years old I participated in a Swedish film as an actor. I think every person at that age should get a role in a film, because during that time you want acceptance, and when you have a role in a film you become an important person. I think about that now, and that was my fantastic starting point.
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Without 'Santini,' my life as an actor would never have had any of the depth or, at least, nothing like the depth it has now.
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Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.
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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 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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That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.
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An actor is most vulnerable at the lowest point of his career.
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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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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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Every actor is always prepared for the worst when it comes to work.
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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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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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As an actor, your main goal is to tell the truth.
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I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.
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As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.
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My mother implanted in me as a young girl...you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.
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It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and had no work ,no money, you know the story because you're heard it before.
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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'm a character actor. Nobody's ever seemed to think of me as a leading man. I'm 6'6''. I've got a big nose. I'm gangly. I've got crooked teeth. That's certainly not Brad Pitt. I'm still around and alive, so if they need older guys, I guess they're thinking of me.
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Being an actor is pretty much like being in the circus.
