Actor Quotes
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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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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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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 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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I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.
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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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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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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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I'm an actor, and I want to play flawed characters, and I'm a writer that wants to write flawed characters, trying to let something out and hoping people relate through that or have fun experiencing the story.
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I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.
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It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, "How would you like to be a horrible actor?" Then you say, "All right, that sounds good. I'll do that."
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As an actor you don't control the end result. Because you're a director, you get to control the end result. I think for us, we really have to show up and participate and give. And then let go.
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To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised - they don’t see you behind closed doors.
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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.
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It is not a question of who is the better actor.
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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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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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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 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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An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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I always thought the leading actor should be the best supporting actor, because you're the only person that can help every other actor on the set.
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An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.
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You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they? They just get on those shows, and they talk away. There's nothing I can do. And that's one of the great lessons I try to convey in my book, which my mother implanted in me as a young girl.. Is you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.
