Quotes with actor

  • You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
  • When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
  • In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
  • The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
  • Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.
  • When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
  • Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.
  • That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.
  • In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
  • 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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  • Ben Affleck As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Billy Zane The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.
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  • Bruce Davison A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Billy Campbell A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Bela Lugosi A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Jeanne Moreau Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
    Jeanne Moreau
    French actress (1928 - 2017)
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  • Cameron Diaz Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.
    Cameron Diaz
    American actress, author, producer, and model (1972 - )
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  • Bob Hoskins Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.
    Bob Hoskins
    English actor (1942 - 2014)
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  • Cate Blanchett Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Brandon Lee All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Billy Wilder An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
    The Bright Side of Billy Wilder (1970)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Boy George An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Edwin Booth An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
    Edwin Booth
    19th-century American actor (1833 - 1893)
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  • Richard Burton An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
    Richard Burton
    Welsh actor (1925 - 1984)
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  • Alec Guinness 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.
    Alec Guinness
    English actor (1914 - 2000)
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  • Donald Sinden An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
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  • Marlon Brando An actor's a guy, who if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.
    The Observer (1956)
    Marlon Brando
    American actor, film director, and activist (1924 - 2004)
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  • Carl Lewis An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Brad Falchuk Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.
    Brad Falchuk
    American television writer, director, and producer (1971 - )
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  • Camilla Luddington Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
    Camilla Luddington
    British-American actress (1983 - )
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