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In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
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It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.
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It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.
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It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.
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It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.
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It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
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It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.
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It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement.
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It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.
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It's weird because every movie that I do is always a role that reminds me of a role that 'Pac would have done. And when 'Pac did 'Juice,' he was young - probably like 21, 22 - something like that. And that's my favorite actor. I know it might be weird to say, but he was talented on screen, and that's who I studied.
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It's, like, sort of a dream thing for an actor when they're told to gain weight.
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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.
Bobby Darin
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973) -
Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.
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Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.
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LL Cool J was a rapper-turned-actor, and I also relate to him because he was sort of a ladies' man and had a female fan base, but yet he's a positive dude. You never read about him getting into trouble or going to jail.
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Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.
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My brother's an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, 'Well, my brother works nine hours a day at his job... What if I worked nine hours a day at being an actor?'
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My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.
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