Actor Quotes
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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've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
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Every actor fears unemployment – even me.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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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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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.
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When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.
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It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
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Working with Sukumar was amazing. He's someone who trusts his actors and allows them to experiment with dialogues and scenes. When you're working with him, you learn a lot subconsciously, and that helped me in discovering the actor within.
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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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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor.
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I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
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An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himself. The personality has to say it his own way.
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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
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I'm a character actor.
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Actor's life is very long.
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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.
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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.
