Actors Quotes
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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.
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When I used to do tours, I'd be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the reaction was because I was coming back unemployed. Actors are constantly being put to the test.
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There are actors who make no decisions about how to play something until they're in the moment, looking into their scene partner's eyes. So they're completely available for whatever happens. And those are actors who tend to avoid getting into patterns.
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On a movie, it's always better to stay invisible as much as you can to keep things calm. I like to whisper to my cameraman, I like to whisper to my actors, and whoever else I've gotten to whisper to.
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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 guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.
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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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I try to do the same thing when I'm with young actors who are new and unsure. I try to do the same thing for them that I saw Laurence Fishburne and Angela Dasset do for all of us on Boyz n the Hood.
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To see great actors bring it all to life us exhilerating.
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If you are lucky as an actor, you are doing a character that really matches where you are in life, or you're doing a character that is not where you are. If it's somewhere in between, you have to use a lot of imagination and a lot of thought.
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As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.
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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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I always call myself a stuntman first and then an actor.
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I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
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Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom.
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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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There are actors that come in and do a fight sequence, but when they have to fall on the ground or take a tag to the belly a bit too hard, they're shocked at how real it is.
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The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.
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The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
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Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.
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That's how I digest it, 'cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I'm gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
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You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested.
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I lack confidence as an actor.
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There is this thing called Actors Access, which is run by the breakdown services. What they do is they put up casting notices that are available to everyone. Because there's thousands and thousands of actors and there are student films and grad student films and, sometimes, some small independent projects that are on there.
