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Actor Quotes
"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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"Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience."
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"A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak."
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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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"I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium."
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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."
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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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"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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"As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience."
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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 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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"I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off."
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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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"Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again."
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"I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me."
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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."
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"When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors."
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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."
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"I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors."
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"Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day."
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"I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present."
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"If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors."
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"I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard."
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"As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive."
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"It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy."
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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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"Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky."
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"In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined."
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