Actor Quotes
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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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I always take part in the creative process of every film of mine. Gone are the days where an actor would walk into the sets, finish his portions, take the money, and leave. In fact, I've been accused of being interfering - but that's the way I am. It is important for every actor to get involved with the script.
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If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?
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Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an actor.
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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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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'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.
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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 mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.
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Really I'm just an actor. The only difference between me and those cats in Hollywood is that I write my own script.
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What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.
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Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
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I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.
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I definitely understood the feeling of moving to Los Angeles and having a dream to be an actor in films and to get to be a part of things that I loved and inspire people in some way.
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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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An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there's no demand on them.
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As an actor, the toughest thing is being subject to circumstance. Meaning: What scripts are out there that are available?
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Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers, and people kind of forget that sometimes.
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I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.
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I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.
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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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Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.
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It is not a question of who is the better actor.
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I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole - I never had any of that kind of angsty period old and doing musicals at camp and community theater and plays at school; it was just always what I most enjoyed and always what I intended to pursue.
