Actor Quotes
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My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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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'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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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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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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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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You still slightly down that you're ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That's the territory of being an actor. It's like anything that's competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.
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Michael Hogan is an absolutely brilliant actor, so anytime I get to work with someone of that caliber, I get excited.
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The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
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I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
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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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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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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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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
