Actors Quotes
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People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
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I was trained as a dramatic actor. Im really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.
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Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.
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I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland'.
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I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.
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Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
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A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
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I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.
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Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'
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There's an inherent responsibility actors feel when portraying something that actually exists in the world. It's arguably something that not all actors would agree on because this is a craft, but for me, it's the emotion of what a character is going through that makes the performance what it is. We have a responsibility to bring those emotions to light.
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If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.
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I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.
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I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.
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A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.
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I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.
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Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.
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The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself.
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Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.
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I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.
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Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders...
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Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.
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More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.
