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Actor Quotes
"Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused."
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"If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me."
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"I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile."
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"In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression."
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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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"Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?"
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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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"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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"It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare."
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"Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor."
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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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"Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of."
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"On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors."
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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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"Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm 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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"Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected."
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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."
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"An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand."
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"I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director."
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"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."
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"The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional."
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