Actor Quotes
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I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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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 you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.
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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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As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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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 personally don't think you should ever date someone you work with, will work with, etc. I won't ever date an actor.
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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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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to pay for my college education. I applied for a summer announcing job at a couple of radio stations.
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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 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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I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.
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In fact you can begin to discover and investigate whether you are an actor or not, whether you're in my view, qualified for a life in this profession or in this endeavor by checking yourself out and acting every day, getting plays and scripts and getting together with people and divvying up the parts and acting in one way or another, or writing things.
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I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.
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There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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To any aspiring actor, go and train yourself.
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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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It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.
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If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.
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I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.
