Actors Quotes
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Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
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I sort of dreamed about directing before my career as an actor took off. I've directed stage before in so many capacities on tours. I put that together. You have to. Otherwise, it's your statement. It's your voice, and that has to come through.
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Inspiration can come from anywhere. But I do love actors. I wish I could drop a bunch of names, but there are just too many.
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I will take the acting work when I can get it. I am not really an actor, that's always apparent but it's work and I'll take it and am always glad for it.
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I didn't intend to become an actor.
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I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.
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There are two different kinds of actors. There are people who take it just so damn seriously. Then there are guys like me that just get up and love doing it.
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Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.
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I love my little flat in Spitalfields. Lots of actors live out of a suitcase, so it's nice to have a base to come back to.
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I was born to stand out. I don't care whether or not people will find me attractive on screen. That's not why I became an actor. I know that more and more with each new role.
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As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.
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There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scène, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the setting. Then radio is doing something that television very rarely achieves.
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I'm really inspired right now by a lot of the actors and actresses who are pursuing storytelling outside of just acting. They're writing, producing, they are creating their own material. That's really exciting to me. It feels like the possibilities are endless as far the things that you can make and even where they can be shown.
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I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.
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As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.
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I always tell actors, "Don't think of it as unemployment when you don't have a job. You have to think of it as being in preparation for your next job." You have to be always preparing for success.
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the one thing I've observed over the years is the best way to get an actor to not want to play a certain role is to offer it to them. That makes them say, "Well, maybe it's not that good. These guys don't want me to do this..."
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I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.
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I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.
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There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.
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I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.
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As actors, we have the opportunity to work with many directors. Directors only work with themselves and other actors. They never know what it is like to work with another director. So that relationship that one has with a director is entirely always the king.
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The only disadvantage to directing if you've been an actor is how self-conscious you are. When I'm directing, I'm always so aware when I'm speaking to an actor of how easily I could throw them off by saying something careless or not being clear or concise. So it does make you watch your words in a way that sometimes is unhelpful.
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I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.
