Actor Quotes
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I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.
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It's always hard as an actor I think to be just on the set and have the kind of confidence to be like, 'Yeah, I did that. That went perfectly. That's great.' That's more confidence than I have.
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One of the best jobs for a mom is being an actor. I’m very fortunate that I work a lot, but there’s also a lot of down time. I’ve been really involved in my children’s education, doing stuff with their school.
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People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.
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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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Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.
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My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.
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The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.
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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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Certainly as an actor, half of your work is not going to end up on the screen anyway, because in the editorial process, they need to cut to the other actor in the scene. Very often, your best work ends up on the cutting room floor, because it just doesn't work with the overall narrative drive of the story.
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The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.
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An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want to put you in a little box.
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The cool thing about doing a play is that the final interpretation of a piece is turned over to the actors.
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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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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 probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.
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My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.
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I'm never going to be the lead actor guy. I'm real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It's what I do. It's like the circus. I ran away and joined it a long time ago.
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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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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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When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.
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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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It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does.
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To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.
