Actors Quotes
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I've done interviews with actors who I've worked with who I really like, and I'm like, "Wow, look at you. You're just going on . . . You don't even know what you're saying!"
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You've got to do the big studio movies to get your name, but as an actor and for your own well-being you kind of need to step back from that occasionally and do the smaller films. In the end, that's what helps you learn and makes you a better actor.
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If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.
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If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.
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But actors with political views are a dime a dozen.
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I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.
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The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.
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Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether the script's working, or if the actors are acting well, but also the colours.
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What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about theatre. Why do we love it that there are nine Hamletsor six King Lears over two years? We love to watch a different actor attack the same material.
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When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.
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I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.
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As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.
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That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.
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Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
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I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.
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Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.
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When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.
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I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.
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I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.
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My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.
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What I hope is that I don't just become 'Peter from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.' I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.
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I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.
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To work with Richard [Ayoade] is my favourite thing in the world. He is my favourite person. So, it was great for me to be involved in a project that was, again, so different and with such wonderful actors. Everyone from Submarine is in the film in one way or another, which helps because it really does feel like a family.
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If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.
