Actor Quotes
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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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My husband, Steve Hamilton - an actor/producer and co-Director of the Southampton Playwriting Conference - and I had been working in the theatre in New York for many years.
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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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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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I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.
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From the time I was a child, I wanted to be an actor.
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As an actor, you always want to root for your characters.
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But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the 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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An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there's no demand on them.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, “Wonderful. Just have a backup profession like welding.
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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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I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.
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I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
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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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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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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've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.
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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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I think if you're an actor you kind of have to be willing to look stupid.
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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 hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.
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I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.
