Actor Quotes
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I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.
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I think it's great when dramatic actors do lighter, funny roles.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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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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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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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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I'm an actor.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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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 wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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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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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.
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There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?
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The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me. So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.
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Rumours are a part and parcel of being an actor, and I am okay with that.
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My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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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.
