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Embrace the power of your uniqueness, for authenticity is your superpower in a world of conformity.
Author:
Jennifer Lopez
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Every success starts with a step out of your comfort zone.
Author:
Jennifer Lopez
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Do not be afraid to stand out in a world that strives for conformity, for true beauty lies in your uniqueness.
Author:
Jennifer Lopez
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You can't control how others perceive you, but you can choose how you present yourself to the world.
Author:
Jennifer Lopez
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Embrace the journey of becoming who you are meant to be, for it is in the striving that we find our truest selves.
Author:
Jennifer Lopez
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Let your authenticity shine brighter than conformity, for that is where true freedom lies.
Author:
Jennifer Lopez
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You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie.
Author:
David Zucker
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I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.
Author:
David Zucker
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Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
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Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
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It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.
Author:
Ziyi Zhang
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In nighttime series, the actor gets billing up front on every episode.
Author:
Michael Zaslow
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My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do.
Author:
Tina Yothers
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From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.
Author:
Donnie Yen
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.
Author:
Douglas Wood
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I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.
Author:
Scott Wolf
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The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.
Author:
Richard Wilson
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
Author:
Owen Wilson
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The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up.
Author:
Luke Wilson
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I fit into the quirky, character class type of actor.
Author:
Debra Wilson
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A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself.
Author:
Kenneth Williams
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When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.
Author:
Tom Wilkinson
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If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
Author:
Billy Wilder
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
Author:
Olivia Wilde
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When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.
Author:
Olivia Wilde
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Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.
Author:
Richard Widmark
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I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.
Author:
Richard Widmark
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When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.
Author:
Charlotte Whitton
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The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.
Author:
Margaret Whiting
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As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.
Author:
Forest Whitaker
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The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.
Author:
David Wenham
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Author:
Orson Welles
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The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor.
Author:
Johnny Weissmuller
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It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.
Author:
Sigourney Weaver
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As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.
Author:
Sigourney Weaver
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It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.
Author:
Emily Watson
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I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.
Author:
Barry Watson
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If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
Author:
Sam Waterston
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I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff.
Author:
Gedde Watanabe
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Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.
Author:
David Warner
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As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.
Author:
Fred Ward
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Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for awhile. That's probably one reason I became an actor.
Author:
Fred Ward
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I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.
Author:
Ray Walston
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But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.
Author:
Ray Walston
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I was very conscious of the actor; watched what he did.
Author:
Ray Walston
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But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.
Author:
M. Walsh
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I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.
Author:
Herschel Walker
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An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
Author:
Christopher Walken
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As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.
Author:
Christopher Walken
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Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
Author:
Christopher Walken
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Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.
Author:
Christopher Walken
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I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times just like every actor. It wasn't like someone handed it to me.
Author:
Donnie Wahlberg
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The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky.
Author:
Sarah Vowell
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Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this 'Obama' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.
Author:
Jon Voight
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I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'
Author:
Jon Voight
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I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events - the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed - I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work.
Author:
Milo Ventimiglia
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An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
Author:
Robert Vaughn
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I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
Author:
Matthew Vaughn
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I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
Author:
Bill Vaughan
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I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.
Author:
Michael Vartan
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Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.
Author:
Michael Vartan
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As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.
Author:
Wilmer Valderrama
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Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.
Author:
Blair Underwood
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As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.
Author:
Skeet Ulrich
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I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.
Author:
Skeet Ulrich
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I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.
Author:
Skeet Ulrich
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I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.
Author:
Stanley Tucci
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I was dissatisfied just being an actor.
Author:
Stanley Tucci
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I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.
Author:
Stanley Tucci
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An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.
Author:
Francois Truffaut
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It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.
Author:
Jeanne Tripplehorn
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When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas.
Author:
Jean-Louis Trintignant
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
Author:
Obie Trice
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I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.
Author:
Michelle Trachtenberg
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I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.
Author:
Benicio Toro
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My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.
Author:
Benicio Toro
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Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!
Author:
Jennifer Tilly
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
Author:
Uma Thurman
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There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.
Author:
Charlize Theron
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I'm not an instinctive actor.
Author:
John Thaw
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Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
Author:
Ellen Terry
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I am proud to be an actor.
Author:
Rod Taylor
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I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.
Author:
Rod Taylor
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I pray and try every day to be a better actor.
Author:
Rod Taylor
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So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.
Author:
Rod Taylor
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Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
Author:
Quentin Tarantino
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
Author:
Quentin Tarantino
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This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.
Author:
Jeffrey Tambor
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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
Author:
Ice T
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As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
Author:
Ice T
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I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.
Author:
Max Sydow
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One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.
Author:
Janet Suzman
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We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down?
Author:
Sarah Sutton
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When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.
Author:
Kiefer Sutherland
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There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.
Author:
Kiefer Sutherland
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I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character.
Author:
Kiefer Sutherland
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It was like there's got to be some way to stay working and stay productive in Los Angeles. TV is that kind of thing for an actor. Unless you get stuck in one of these shows where you have to go to Vancouver.
Author:
Ethan Suplee
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It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.
Author:
Nicole Sullivan
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If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.
Author:
Nicole Sullivan
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Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.
Author:
Gloria Stuart
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
Author:
Barbra Streisand
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All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
Author:
Meryl Streep
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The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Author:
Meryl Streep
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I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.
Author:
Dorothy Stratten
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A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.
Author:
Lee Strasberg
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The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.
Author:
Lee Strasberg
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I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.
Author:
Ben Stiller
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I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
Author:
Ben Stiller
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I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.
Author:
Ben Stiller
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I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.
Author:
David Stiers
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I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.
Author:
Jon Stewart
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An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.
Author:
Rod Steiger
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There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.
Author:
Mary Steenburgen
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Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained.
Author:
Jason Statham
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Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.
Author:
Konstantin Stanislavisky
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I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.
Author:
Terence Stamp
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I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.
Author:
Sylvester Stallone
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I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.
Author:
Nick Stahl
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Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.
Author:
Rick Springfield
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And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.
Author:
Brent Spiner
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And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.
Author:
Scott Speedman
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I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
Author:
Al Spalding
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I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.
Author:
David Soul
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Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor.
Author:
David Soul
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I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.
Author:
Steven Soderbergh
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One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.
Author:
Courtney Smith
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There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.
Author:
Erika Slezak
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There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.
Author:
Christian Slater
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I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.
Author:
Tom Sizemore
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The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago.
Author:
Gene Siskel
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John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.
Author:
Gene Siskel
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Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.
Author:
Douglas Sirk
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An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Author:
Donald Sinden
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I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.
Author:
Ron Silver
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I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
Author:
Simone Signoret
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You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator.
Author:
Joel Siegel
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You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
Author:
Wayne Shorter
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What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.
Author:
Martin Short
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There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.
Author:
Martin Sheen
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My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.
Author:
Harry Shearer
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I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.
Author:
Wallace Shawn
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The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
Author:
Fiona Shaw
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I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.
Author:
Omar Sharif
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There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
Author:
Omar Sharif
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In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.
Author:
Michael Shanks
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
Author:
Garry Shandling
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I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.
Author:
Tony Shalhoub
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I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.
Author:
Peter Shaffer
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And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.
Author:
Ted Shackelford
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Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
Author:
Rod Serling
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I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.
Author:
Yahoo Serious
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I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
Author:
Steven Seagal
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I'm a method actor.
Author:
Seann Scott
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We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do.
Author:
Sean Scott
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Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.
Author:
Dougray Scott
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I am an actor through and through.
Author:
Dougray Scott
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
Author:
Campbell Scott
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
Author:
Campbell Scott
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Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.
Author:
Martin Scorsese
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I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.
Author:
David Schwimmer
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There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.
Author:
David Schwimmer
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Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all.
Author:
Jason Schwartzman
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I was heartbroken at the end of that, because I thought that was going to be it for me. Somehow I had worked my way into this movie and it had exposed me to people and I had a chance to be an actor, which I loved, but I didn't think it was ever going to happen again.
Author:
Jason Schwartzman
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It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful.
Author:
Rick Schroder
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I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.
Author:
Liev Schreiber
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You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.
Author:
Vincent Schiavelli
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I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.
Author:
Devon Sawa
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I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects.
Author:
Fred Savage
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I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
Author:
Susan Sarandon
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When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, 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.
Author:
Adam Sandler
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To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. 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.
Author:
Adam Sandler
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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.
Author:
Eriq Salle
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And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.
Author:
Katey Sagal
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You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.
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Mark Rylance
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It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.
Author:
Winona Ryder
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He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture.
Author:
Mark Rydell
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It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!
Author:
Mark Rydell
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He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.
Author:
Mark Rydell
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That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.
Author:
Jeri Ryan
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If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.
Author:
Kurt Russell
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I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.
Author:
Geoffrey Rush
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I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
Author:
Geoffrey Rush
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I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.
Author:
Mark Ruffalo
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I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.
Author:
Mark Ruffalo
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What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.
Author:
Mickey Rourke
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All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.
Author:
Mickey Rourke
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When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.
Author:
Tim Roth
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I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.
Author:
Tim Roth
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As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!
Author:
George Romero
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Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.
Author:
Cesar Romero
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That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone "mainstream."
Author:
Cesar Romero
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So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
Author:
Henry Rollins
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
Author:
Wayne Rogers
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If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.
Author:
Joe Rogan
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Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.
Author:
Norman Rockwell
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You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.
Author:
Paul Robeson
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I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.
Author:
Julia Roberts
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I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.
Author:
Doris Roberts
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I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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Once during a taping there was an actor who kept blowing his lines. It happened again and again. Finally Norman Fell came out-he wasn't even in that scene. But Norman came out and you know what he did? He killed the guy with a hammer.
Author:
John Ritter
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Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.
Author:
John Ritter
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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
Author:
Alan Rickman
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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
Author:
Alan Rickman
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A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.
Author:
Natasha Richardson
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Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
Author:
Miranda Richardson
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Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.
Author:
Donna Rice
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If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.
Author:
Alfonso Ribeiro
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I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.
Author:
Tommy Rettig
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A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
Author:
Ivan Reitman
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You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.
Author:
Keanu Reeves
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I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.
Author:
Robert Redford
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How can a president not be an actor?
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong.
Author:
Maureen Reagan
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The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
Author:
Stephen Rea
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The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
Author:
Sam Rayburn
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Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
Author:
Harold Ramis
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I didn't intend to become an actor.
Author:
Anthony Quinn
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In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
Author:
Anthony Quinn
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When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.
Author:
Kathleen Quinlan
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I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.
Author:
Kathleen Quinlan
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Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.
Author:
Kathleen Quinlan
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Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.
Author:
Randy Quaid
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The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.
Author:
Dick Powell
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I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.
Author:
Franka Potente
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I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
Author:
Sydney Pollack
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I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.
Author:
Amy Poehler
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I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.
Author:
Donald Pleasence
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Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.
Author:
Michael Pitt
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I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.
Author:
Rosamund Pike
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Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.
Author:
Rosamund Pike
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My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?
Author:
David Pierce
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I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead.
Author:
River Phoenix
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At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.
Author:
Ryan Phillippe
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If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor.
Author:
William Petersen
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I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.
Author:
Tyler Perry
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As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.
Author:
Matthew Perry
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I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor.
Author:
Ron Perlman
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You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.
Author:
Ron Perlman
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My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait until they're 18; I won't take them to auditions.
Author:
Elizabeth Perkins
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As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress.
Author:
Rosie Perez
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I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.
Author:
Piper Perabo
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In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.
Author:
Sean Penn
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I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
Author:
Sean Penn
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I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.
Author:
Sean Penn
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I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.
Author:
Robin Penn
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Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.
Author:
Robin Penn
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I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.
Author:
Austin Peck
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As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.
Author:
Austin Peck
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When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.
Author:
Guy Pearce
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I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.
Author:
Alexandra Paul
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Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.
Author:
Robert Pattinson
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I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'
Author:
Robert Pattinson
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I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.
Author:
Scott Patterson
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I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.
Author:
Dick Patten
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I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
Author:
Jason Patric
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
Author:
Adam Pascal
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The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
Author:
Talcott Parsons
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I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.
Author:
Molly Parker
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I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.
Author:
Christopher Parker
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One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.
Author:
Joe Pantoliano
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I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.
Author:
Gwyneth Paltrow
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I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.
Author:
Patti Page
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I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.
Author:
Clive Owen
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Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.
Author:
Tom Oppenheim
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I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.
Author:
Ed O'Neill
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If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.
Author:
Susan Olsen
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I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
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I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
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The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
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I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
Author:
Gary Oldman
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Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.
Author:
Sandra Oh
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As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna.
Author:
Sandra Oh
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Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.
Author:
Carroll O'Connor
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The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.
Author:
Richard O'Brien
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I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.
Author:
Trevor Nunn
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When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.
Author:
Trevor Nunn
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If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't matter if the work doesn't provide that creative spark. You want out.
Author:
Chris Noth
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I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.
Author:
Graham Norton
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As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.
Author:
Jeremy Northam
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I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.
Author:
Robert Niro
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I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done.
Author:
Bill Nighy
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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
Author:
Jack Nicholson
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In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
Author:
Jack Nicholson
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Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
Author:
Jack Nicholson
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
Author:
Jack Nicholson
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I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
Author:
Paul Newman
