Actor Quotes
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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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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 never have such luxury of leisure time. But whenever I get some time, I catch up on watching movies, keep going to theatre to watch plays, gigs of my actor friends.
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I am not that big a method actor.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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I admire Cate Blanchett as an actor: that's my ultimate goal. To be as good as she is!
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The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
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As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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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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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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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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When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.
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When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.
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One of the coolest things about being an actor is growing, and changing with everything, and never making the same decision twice because you've learned so much from the last project. I guess that's like in life. You keep moving through, and you hopefully learn from your mistakes and just get better and better all the time.
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I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
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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 think of myself as an actor.
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I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.'
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I'm a very proud actor.
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The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
