Actor Quotes
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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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Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you're a Hollywood actor or anyone else, it's always a little bit more than you want to pay.
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I suppose the underlying current for me is the idea of not doing something I've done before. I call myself a character actor and I'm always trying to stay a character actor.
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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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An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.
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I always try that my next film is different than my last movie. I would like to surprise my audience; that, I think, is the job of an actor.
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I think every actor wants to play those big parts. In the very first play I ever did, I remember understanding all the characters in it. I always felt I could play anyone.
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I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.
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I think it's an actor's gift to be as old as people think you are.
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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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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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A lot of really good actors are able to go straight from life to their work. They don't treat it as something that's an unattainable, weird thing that they have to aspire to and reach for in a scene.
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How many times, in any actor's life, do you get to be a part of something that has a legacy like Buffy? I think that's only fortunate. I don't see the negative.
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Every actor has a production company already. It's just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own production company.
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The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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As an actor, I want to do something I will be remembered for. I think Maaya is that kind of film.
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I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.
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There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what I’m shooting will end up on the screen.
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I hate to think of the day when nobody remembers me as an actor and I can't get good tables in restaurants.
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For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.
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An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.
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'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.
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I don't really know where the rumors started. They just started. Because I saw a number of people rumored for the role and there was never any discussion, never any conversations. I think Chadwick Boseman is a great actor. I saw Get on Up and he killed that role. So, I think he's going to do a great job.
