Actor Quotes
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
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I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.
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It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.
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We know the history of Hussein, and we know he is a bad actor, ... We know he's had weapons of mass destruction and used them against Iranians and used them against the Kurds in his own country, and he would use them against anybody else, too.
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The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
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Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.
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Being actors is a strange job.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.
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I'm a character actor.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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Onstage, even though you're here together with the other actor, face-to-face, playing out the scene, you also have that other ear pointed out toward the audience and how they're listening. That informs a lot.
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.
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I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
