Actor Quotes
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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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I recognize my physical limitations, but I am an actor who is able to transform himself into someone else.
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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'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.
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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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I've been very lucky as an actor. I have worked all the time. Some shows I do, they get cancelled. Some, they're critically acclaimed, and then they get cancelled. And some, I'm in the last season of this or that. But I can't complain about my career.
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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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I think one of the things you have to be aware of as an actor is that if you come on the set and see the director standing there mouthing all the words while a scene is going on, that's usually a very bad sign because it means the director has already shot the scene in his head. He knows exactly the rhythm and the nuances that he wants delivered in the line and you're not going to dissuade him.
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Its such a process to get a show off the ground initially. And then, to already have a second season announced is a dream come true for any actor.
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Me and Biggie share a storytelling ability--he was an actor on wax, too. His stories were so vivid and torrid, he made you feel them. And we both have the hardness. When I come out on the mic, you know it's me.
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To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.
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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'd like to be a working actor. It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve.
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It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.
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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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I am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.
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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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What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.
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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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A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.
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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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The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.
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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 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.
