Actor Quotes
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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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As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.
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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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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 like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else. Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else.
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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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I know what my talents are, and at the end of the day I'm an actor who can dance.
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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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A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.
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It is not a question of who is the better actor.
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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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You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.
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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.
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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 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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My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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I'm an actor, and I don't judge my parts.
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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.
