Actor Quotes
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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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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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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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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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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 know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.
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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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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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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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I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.
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When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.
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The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
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I am not that big a method actor.
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Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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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.
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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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Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.
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There's absolutely no purpose for me ever to embarrass an actor by not getting the best possible performance. So, if it takes staying longer, then we'll staying longer and work through it.
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As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
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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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The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
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I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.
