Actor Quotes
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Sometimes, as a guest actor, when you come on, you're coming into a show that's already been established, and the wheels are already in motion. It can be very nerve-wracking, jumping in as a newcomer, but everyone on 'Saving Hope' was so welcoming.
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Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every time I work with a director and a group of actors. I have to be open to that interpretation. I'm not one of those hysterical playwrights that come and say, "This is not what I intended to do." It's one rendition of the piece.
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But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.
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I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.
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It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.
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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've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.
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It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.
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What I typically look for is something I haven’t done before; a new opportunity and a new actor muscle to flex. That’s always a huge attractive thing to me when I’m reading a script or a potential project.
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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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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
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Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
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Because makeup happens in my life as an actor, face wash is a key. I use La Mer cleansing gel every morning, every night, sometimes three times a day. Also, I use Bobbi Brown's Hydrating Face Tonic that you put on after you wash your face. It just rejuvenates your face. It takes away that morning face.
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Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.
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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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As an actor, your main goal is to tell the truth.
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It's always really cool as an actor to have a character that people want to see the best for.
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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'm a character actor. Nobody's ever seemed to think of me as a leading man. I'm 6'6''. I've got a big nose. I'm gangly. I've got crooked teeth. That's certainly not Brad Pitt. I'm still around and alive, so if they need older guys, I guess they're thinking of me.
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Me and Biggie share a storytelling ability--he was an actor on wax, too. His stories were so vivid and torrid, he made you feel them. And we both have the hardness. When I come out on the mic, you know it's me.
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I'm an actor, and I don't judge my parts.
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Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an 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.
