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Actor Quotes
"We chose the actors thru a series of auditions when we started the show."
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"The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting."
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"The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part."
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"Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood."
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"I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable."
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"As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible."
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"I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it."
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"In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play."
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"We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves."
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"In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors."
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"There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year."
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"There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic."
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"As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line."
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"Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors."
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"There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors."
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"I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25."
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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."
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"The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them."
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"Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything."
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"When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice."
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"Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves."
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"Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing."
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"An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego."
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"But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed."
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