Actor Quotes
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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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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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.
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I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
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My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor.
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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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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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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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I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
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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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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.
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I always thought I was a pretty terrible 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 always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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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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Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in it. And very, very accurate. I think there was some element that thought she had pushed it too far. But not at all when you do the amount of homework she had done and spent the amount of time she did with adult autistics. She was right on the money. And I think Marc Evans is a terrific director. He's a sweet, open, honest man and a really good director of actors.
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.
