Actor Quotes
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As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.
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Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.
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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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I know what my talents are, and at the end of the day I'm an actor who can dance.
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I never think about awards or anything like that when I do a job. I was first named a best actor when I was 12 years old and it doesn't really mean anything when you get down to it, because there is no best. I don't get all that involved. My chest puffs up as much as I can puff it up but I am not trying to be better than the person I am acting with. I am trying to be at least as good. That's how it works.
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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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As an actor, you always want to root for your characters.
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I had to decide if I wanted to be a singer or an actor. I was always singing. I thought if I could be an actor, I could do all of it.
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You're not just writing in a vacuum, and then handing it over to someone else to shoot. You're writing, and then getting feedback from the actor and hearing their voice and how they play things.
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Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.
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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 thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.
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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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You can be as good an actor as you want but, if your accent is too strong, it's going to limit you.
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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 always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an 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.
