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Actor Quotes
"In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression."
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"Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?"
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"The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature."
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"Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of."
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"Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor."
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"Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic."
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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."
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"Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on."
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"In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies."
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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."
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"The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional."
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"As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away."
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"It was great as an actor to be given the story line I was given but I didn't expect Craig to stay so it was a lovely twist when I found out they'd decided to keep him."
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"I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director."
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"It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare."
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"Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession."
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"I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible."
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"I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early."
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"I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again."
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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."
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"I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor."
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"I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them."
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"I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium."
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"If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors."
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"As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience."
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"I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it."
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