Actor Quotes
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As an actor, I never go back and look at my work, anyway. The satisfaction comes in the doing.
Hart Bochner -
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.
Dustin Hoffman
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To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.
Artie Lange -
Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.
Paul Mazursky -
I am just an actor, and this is my job. What I am doing is not extraordinary.
Nithya Menen -
Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
Paul Rudd -
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.
Adrien Brody -
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
Stephen Rea
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My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.
Stephen Root -
I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
Sydney Pollack -
It's all about whatever enriches you. If you decide to go the domestic route and get married and all those things, it makes you a better actor.
Josh Duhamel -
To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.
Johnathon Schaech -
If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.
Susan Olsen -
What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.
Nina Arianda
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After a while, the person who knows the character best is you, the actor.
Susan Kelechi Watson -
You can't plan your character arc - you have a vague idea, maybe, but I'm constantly surprised. Sometimes actors in films will play the ending of the movie, or even the middle, and you know where it's going - as an audience member you can read the actor.
Evan Peters -
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor get to be the hero?
Esai Morales -
To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.
Giancarlo Esposito -
There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.
Paul Giamatti -
Oh, I like going down the rabbit hole. You know, that's kind of my job. When you play Macbeth, you gotta dive down that one. The trick is figuring out how to do it with love and a sense of humor so you can pop back out again. But, kind of the actor's job is to go down the rabbit hole.
Ethan Hawke
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As an actor, you have to just think about the truth of your character. You have to think about how to play the character in the way that you know it needs to be played in your heart and why you were hired.
Emma Stone -
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.
Paul Eenhoorn -
I still act. It's in my blood. I'll always be an actor.
Dean McDermott -
I have Janicza solely to thank for my growth as an actor because she saw in me something that other people just weren't seeing, and she knew that I could go beyond the normal, funny 'make-em-ups' that I was doing on an improv stage.
Brett Gelman