Actor Quotes
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I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.
Paul Giamatti -
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.
Nicholas D'Agosto
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I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.
Richard Schiff -
Really I'm just an actor. The only difference between me and those cats in Hollywood is that I write my own script.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience -
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.
Ethan Hawke -
An actor is most vulnerable at the lowest point of his career.
Nushrat Bharucha -
I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.
Topher Grace -
If a film becomes successful, the actor is blamed for being commercial and not having a true love for movies. When we do serious films, we will be blamed for not planning our career properly. I believe that what one should do is to make good cinema and try to make it successful.
Nivin Pauly
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When I work, I'm the actor. I'm going to do my job. I'm not going to direct the movie. If I wanted to direct it, I would direct it. I wanted J.J. Abrams to direct Mission: Impossible. I work with people that I respect. I expect them to do their jobs, and I will do mine. And I am there as a producer to help in any way, but no one makes a movie by themselves. It's a collaboration.
Tom Cruise -
A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.
Harry Houdini -
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.
Noel Fisher -
It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.
Cate Blanchett -
As an actor, doing animation is definitely on the list of most actors because it is such a freeing, fun, different experience than being on camera. There's just something different about it that's not more fun, but a different sort of fun.
Eric Stonestreet -
I feel that where I came from made me the actor that I am, and I wouldn't want to trade that with anything else.
Swara Bhaskar
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I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.
Nina Conti -
I mean, the great thing about being an actor is you can investigate parts of your brain that might have otherwise gone dormant.
Josh Peck -
You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.
Harvey Fierstein -
I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.
Jon Bernthal -
I'm pretty captivated by reality TV and I know that as an actor I probably shouldn't be saying that, but it's what I like to watch.
Nikki Cox -
One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.
Dustin Hoffman
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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.
Paul Horgan -
I realized early on that if I became an actor, I could play a writer and a sculptor and a painter and be all the things you just don't have time to be in your lifetime. I could get to learn about all of them.
Harry Dean Stanton -
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.
Erin Karpluk -
I am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.
Harry Dean Stanton