To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'
Lena Olin
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When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.
Trevor Nunn
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I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.
Ellen Pompeo
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I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.
Don Johnson
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I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.
Arne Glimcher
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I'm really into sci-fi. The reason I'm an actor is because of 'Star Wars' - I saw that and I knew that's what I wanted to do. But most of the projects I'm offered as an actor are straightforward dramas, so I haven't really been given a chance to do that kind of role.
Ricky Schroder
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Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.
Michael B. Jordan
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You work really hard to make it, and maybe you get some acclaim, but then you realize there are certain limitations as an actor.
James Franco
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I didn't become an actor to become a celebrity.
Michael T. Weiss
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I did 'Lonely Hearts' with John Travolta and James Gandolfini. Talk about getting over your fears. These guys were amazing! Also, Cuba Gooding, Jr. is one of my favorites. We've made 3 films together. He is such a generous, giving actor.
Christa Campbell
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I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.
Peter Cullen
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The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.
Andrew Scott
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Personally, sometimes I'll lament the journey of an Asian-American actor, walking into audition rooms in 1999.
Kelvin Yu
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As a filmmaker and an actor, my job is to react towards people, but I want a reaction from them.
Tommy Wiseau
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I did a lot of theater as a young actor in my early twenties, and my first few records really came from writing songs through the rehearsal processes.
Johnny Flynn
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When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
Anton Chekhov
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Experience tells us that whereas that degree of recognition can happen for one or two actors, for the vast majority it doesn't, so what matters is to try and be a better actor.
Richard McCabe
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
Michael Caine
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I'm an actor; I hire out.
James Garner
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I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.
Michelle Forbes
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My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked.
Christian Slater
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When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.
Peter Facinelli
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I'm not an activist, I'm an actor. I don't want to be an activist.
John Cho
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You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.
Kristin Lehman
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