Actor Quotes
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As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.
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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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I think, for me as an actor, if you get to a place where you're satisfied, you're happy with it, then you're dead. It's over. You're not hungry anymore. You won't try things anymore.
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If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.
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As an actor, you always want to root for your characters.
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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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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.
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Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.
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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 had a friend in high school who badly wanted to make movies and would recruit me as an actor. It was always so much fun. I decided, I'm going to go to Hollywood and make movies, which is a thought I'd never had before.
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I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.
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There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady.
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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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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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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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You can ask any Latin actor: inevitably, if they get a part meant for a white guy, producers will change the character's name to sound more Latin.
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A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.
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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 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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As an actor, you have to just think about the truth of your character. You have to think about how to play the character in the way that you know it needs to be played in your heart and why you were hired.
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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 didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
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From the time I was a child, I wanted to be an actor.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
