Actor Quotes
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That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.
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Every actor is always prepared for the worst when it comes to work.
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I got into film in an odd way - when I was 17 years old I participated in a Swedish film as an actor. I think every person at that age should get a role in a film, because during that time you want acceptance, and when you have a role in a film you become an important person. I think about that now, and that was my fantastic starting point.
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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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Being an actor is pretty much like being in the circus.
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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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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'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.
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I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.
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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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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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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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As an actor, you always want to root for your characters.
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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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I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.
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A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.
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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.
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I've been sort of coasting on 'Peep Show.' So now it's kind of, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have to be an actor if I'm not careful.'
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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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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 think if you're an actor you kind of have to be willing to look stupid.
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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 an actor, and I don't judge my parts.
