Actors Quotes
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I was trained as a dramatic actor. Im really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.
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Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.
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When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors.
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I think the writing and the casting and all of that has so much to do with actors becoming their characters. I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that and the words that are on the page, depending on how it's written, can really help your character develop.
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All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.
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I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.
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Meeting people is difficult, period. LA is a difficult place to meet people anyway, and Hollywood is such a small community. But I don't make it a rule just to date other actors and people in the entertainment industry. It could work out with me and a dentist. It could work out with me and a lawyer.
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I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
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I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.
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If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.
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First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.
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I know what a good question would be for an actor. What's your least favorite thing that you've ever heard an actor say about acting? Or about being in a movie?
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Those familiar with our Musical Theatre Workshops productions will notice this is a very large cast. With only 10 days of rehearsal, these 20 actors will have their work cut out for them. It's definitely a labor of love.
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I was lucky, life provided a chance to work with great directors and actors.
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Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.
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With actors, it's really about feeding them all the time. I don't get involved in their process. I try to do the opposite, feeding them, feeding them, feeding them, and you can see very easily how they react to it.
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In so many areas, when you think about it, you never really see an actor cross over to music. It always music to acting and it's receivable because when music gives a form of entertainment of art to where it's very personable, it's a passion, it's an intimate type of art to when you hear it, it's them.
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Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
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If someone asked for advice on being an actor I'd say "Don't. It's a hard life." And if they walked away I'd be happy to have spared them years of misery.
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There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.
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When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit."
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A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.
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I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.
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Honestly, I look at the project and I look at the people attached and I look at the director. If it's a role that I feel will help me, as an actor, then I'll definitely take it.
