Actor Quotes
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Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is that you're only as good as your opportunities.
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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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But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.
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And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.
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Sometimes, as a guest actor, when you come on, you're coming into a show that's already been established, and the wheels are already in motion. It can be very nerve-wracking, jumping in as a newcomer, but everyone on 'Saving Hope' was so welcoming.
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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 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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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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I'm an actor, and I don't judge my parts.
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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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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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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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Any passionate actor, if he is spoon-fed, will deliver.
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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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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 had an actor within me.
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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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From the time I was a child, I wanted to be an actor.
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I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.
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I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.
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I struggle to watch myself in any scene, to be honest. What's done is done. I wish I was able to watch myself, as it would really help me develop as an actor. But I'm not brave enough. It's a difficult thing to do - looking at yourself as this utterly different person on a screen.
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I actually don't want to be an actor for the rest of my life. I'd like to go on to be a lawyer or a doctor, and I definitely would like to get into politics.
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I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.
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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.
