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		The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jack Gleeson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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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.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Uzo Aduba
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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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.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Randy Harrison
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I feel these shows allow you to be yourself, this is why I like to be part of them. Also, reality shows have a much bigger reach and provide a bigger platform for an actor.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rithvik Dhanjani
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sterling K. Brown
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alec Guinness
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				T. J. Miller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hayden Christensen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Chris Messina is amazing, and he's so serious - he's, like, a proper actor! He's got craft! I love to watch him. But not in a creepy way.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ed Weeks
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sam Elliott
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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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.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gattlin Griffith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Oren Peli