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Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.
As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.
My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.
All the hard work means something. That's all you can really ask for, as an actor.
I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.
I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
I want to do entertaining films, where a woman gets the respect of being an actor.
As an actor, you use the things from yourself that you can apply to the character.
There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.
I do a public access show with puppets. Puppets called actors, TV and movie stars.
When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!
Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.
Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.
An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.
You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.
I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.
I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television.
It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.
A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.
I think most actors like to do things that are right outside of their comfort zone.
Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.
If you go to a bad movie, it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.
More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?
Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.
I doubt I'm more secure than Meryl Streep... I guess actors just never feel secure.
Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.
Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.
I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.
I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas
I was trained as a dramatic actor. Im really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.
I think there needs to be more care taken for the actor. You know, we are not props!
I like to think that I've grown as an actor and things have changed, and I think so.
What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
I always give one actor an emotion to make it very easy so he or she can root to it.
Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.
Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.
Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'
What's enjoyable for me, as an actor, is to do as many different things as possible.
It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.