Actors Quotes
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The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar territory - places I had lived, people I knew, my life as an actor in New York - and many were prompted by or grounded in personal experience.
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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 always give one actor an emotion to make it very easy so he or she can root to it.
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To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.
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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 think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.
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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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I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'
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I didn't intend to become an actor.
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You should always challenge yourself, as an actor, to find the connection between you and the character.
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The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
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It's impossible to put your finger on what that is exactly other than protecting the environment that the actors get to find the scenes and build the scenes and invest in them. I think that's key and that's what I've learned from all the great directors I've worked with.
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Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.
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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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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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I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.
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The big turn in the late 90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down.
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Actors are superstitious about beggars, perhaps because we're largely in the same line.
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I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.
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I always call myself a stuntman first and then an actor.
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But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.
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I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.
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I credit my mom Debbie for creating a solid family base, ... She gave me a strong sense of reality so I could avoid falling into the normal pitfalls of child actors.
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Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.
