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It becomes very easy as an actor to immerse yourself when you're in the real places.
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
I went to LaGuardia, so I'm very close to the reality that lot of actors work rarely.
My father Kamran Khan was a successful producer, director and actor in B-grade films.
Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.
Even in the wildest of my dreams, I didn't expect this love and affection as an actor.
Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.
Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.
An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
There are no bad actors. There are only bad directors who cannot make their actors act.
I wanted to be a dramatic actor. I never realized I was funny until I was 20-something.
I was the only actor in my family. I wasn't given a lot of advice; I had to work it out.
It's embarrassing sometimes, the way actors or musicians sometimes get made untouchable.
Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.
People think I am joking when I say my favourite actors are Shammi Kapoor and Dara Singh.
A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.
I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.
Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
I feel any actor can deliver a dialogue but real acting is how one reacts to the dialogue.
I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.
I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.
It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.
I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
I'm often confused with other actors. But the people who know my work don't have that problem.
Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole.
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.
Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
I admired actors like Dilip Kumar and Om Puri as a kid and acting was all I ever thought about.
Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
I will never be a Robert De Niro or Meryl Streep, the kind of actor that disappears into a role.
There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.
All actors are insecure. And I've got my insecurities, which is why I go to the gym all the time.
Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance.
I remember the great work that Norman Lear did. That was an incredible heyday to be a black actor.
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.
I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.