Actor Quotes
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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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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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And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/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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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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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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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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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 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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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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To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.
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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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I still act. It's in my blood. I'll always be an actor.
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I think every actor should direct at least once and vice versa.
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I've always wanted to be an actor, but I didn't know how to become one.
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Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
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In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.
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[ Chadwick Boseman] is a remarkable actor, and he's a remarkable person.
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Emma Watson is my kids' favorite actor on the planet. They never took me more seriously than when I was working with her.
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Every once in a while as an actor, you do something that the kids really like.
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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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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when Holmes became a specialist in crime.
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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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Every actor is always prepared for the worst when it comes to work.
