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Actor Quotes
"Most parts that can be played by one actor can equally well be played by another, but not this."
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"I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff."
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"A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films."
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"Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve."
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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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"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."
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"As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors."
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"I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me."
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"I talked to everyone about the project: actors and extras, members of the crew and passers by."
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"I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'"
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"I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there."
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"Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child."
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"The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor."
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"Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy."
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"I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor."
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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."
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"I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off."
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"Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be."
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"I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic."
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"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."
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"A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea."
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"A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do."
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"I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point."
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"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."
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"The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear."
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"In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk."
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"I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor."
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"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."
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