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At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.
Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.
As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.
Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.
Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
When you are an actor every day kind of morphs into one as there is no set structure to my job.
At times as an actor, it's often times unclear as to what the directors envision for a project.
My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors
Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.
And I realized that directing actors is really important because that's what ends up on screen.
Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.
Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.
As an actor, you never know where the works going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.
On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
I've had ups and downs but always maintained I was a working actor, which is a beautiful thing.
I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.
I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.
As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.
If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.
I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.
The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.
I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.
Everybody wants to be a series regular. It's something that a lot of actors would kill to have.
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.
That's just part of the blessing of being an actor: you get to learn so many things about life.
You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.
Most parts that can be played by one actor can equally well be played by another, but not this.
If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.
I'm not one of those actors who asks for too many favours. So when I do, people tend to listen.
I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring.
I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
As an actor, you always want to do the juicy stuff. But, it's important to get the levels right.
Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)
It's nice to have people interested about a show that you're involved in. It's what actors want.
I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.
I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.
I've watched people who were better actors than me disappear, and they're selling insurance now.
I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.
I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.
I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful.
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.
Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.
I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.
As a struggling actor, youre not looking for parts that define you; youre just looking for work.
It takes a minute to get use to the TV thing, and I have so much more respect for TV actors now.
I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.