Actor Quotes
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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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You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.
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My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.
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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'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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There are the obstacles of your position as an actor, not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity, because the successful actors who've been in the game for a while want those roles. So there's more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.
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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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As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.
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One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.
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As an actor, your main goal is to tell the truth.
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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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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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To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.
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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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From the time I was a child, I wanted to be an actor.
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To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.
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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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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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An actor is most vulnerable at the lowest point of his career.
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I feel that where I came from made me the actor that I am, and I wouldn't want to trade that with anything else.
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He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good 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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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.
