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“As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement has to be reserved for later.”

I Can Play Character Actors Honestly Judgement Reserved

Author:Thomas Sadoski

“As an actor playing a character, you look for all of those avenues to see if there's any sense of vulnerability or love that you can bring to a character, and decide how that's portrayed and how that's going to be a struggle with the other characters. It's your job to take that on and challenge yourself, and meet that head on and see what happens with it.”

Ifs Looks Character Happens Jobs Actors Challenges Struggle Vulnerability Avenues Challenge Yourself

Author:David Boreanaz

“As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.”

Knows Sometimes Actors Waiting Offers Projects Agents Managers Who We Are Submit

Author:Navid Negahban

“As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.”

Way Sometimes Actors Bits Emotional

Author:James McAvoy

“As an actor the best thing you have is your imagination. You're not going to have all the experiences, but you draw on the things that you know. So I think you definitely use the things that you're familiar with to your advantage.”

Thinking Knows Use Actors Imagination Draws Advantage Familiar Best Things

Author:Vince Vaughn

“As an actor there are no drawbacks.”

Actors Drawbacks

Author:John Malkovich

“As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for Robert De Niro there's Al Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.”

Actors Mines Mountain Scrutiny Sustaining De Niro

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.”

Actors Risk Possibility Prepared Autonomy Starving

Author:Ben Kingsley

“As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.”

Children Important Mother Actors Chance Timing Small Child

Author:Nicole Kidman

“As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.”

People Mind Done Together Actors Results Watches Audience Privilege Howl

Author:Tommy Lee Jones

“As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.”

Actors Directors Workers Factories

Author:Chow Yun-Fat

“As an actor what you're always looking for is a character that is going to grow and change especially on television. I feel incredibly lucky to be working on a television show where the writing is always geared towards us growing and changing.”

Feels Writing Character Shows Actors Grows Growing Television Lucky Television Shows

Author:Jennifer Morrison

“As an actor who's starting out, you can't say, "Hey, I'm too good for this." You gotta do it, because people see you, your name gets around, and it has a cumulative effect.”

People Actors Names Effects Starting Hey Starting Out Cumulative

Author:Robert De Niro

“As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.”

People Sometimes Whole Actors Accepting Personal Life

Author:Michelle Fairley

“As an actor you always feel like you're swimming upstream.”

Like You Swimming

Author:Bradley Whitford

“As an actor you always wanna protect your character. You wanna make them loveable, likeable. You wanna make them strong, you want them to be the hero, you want them to always be right.”

Want Character Actors Strong Hero Protect Likeable

Author:Katrina Law

“As an actor you always want to be challenged and you always want to have someone tell you you can't do something, because I always want to be like "I can do it and I'll show you I can, and I'll do it better than anyone can".”

Want I Can Shows Actors Can Do I Can Do It

Author:Chloe Grace Moretz

“As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.”

Want Jobs Actors Security Comfortable Appreciate

Author:Chris Noth

“As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.”

Persons Made Play Actors Audience Lighting

Author:Christopher Walken

“As an actor you bring some of your own experiences which can make things easier. You build off of it, but your imagination is always the best thing you have as far as creating things I think specifically for what that character is going through. But you're definitely drawing obviously upon things that you can connect to, and then you kind of mold the change that you're making into something that's right for the character.”

Thinking Kind Character Actors Imagination Easier Creating Drawing Best Things Mold Creating Things

Author:Vince Vaughn

“As an actor you do look for a certain amount of critical acclaim and recognition from your peers and the industry at large. When that recognition comes to you, it's a special moment that you cherish and you always feel successful despite what the box office says.”

Feels Looks Moments Certain Actors Successful Special Industry Amount Office Boxes Critical Despite Recognition Cherish Peers Box Office Acclaim Special Moments

Author:Hrithik Roshan

“As an actor you don't control the end result. Because you're a director, you get to control the end result. I think for us, we really have to show up and participate and give. And then let go.”

Thinking Giving Ends Shows Actors Results Directors Letting Go End Results

Author:Nicole Kidman

“As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!”

People Ifs Want Writing Play Actors Comedy Serious Amusing Good Writing

Author:Sophie Thompson

“As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!”

Actors Pimples

Author:Jonathan Brandis

“As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. Its like watching a masterpiece.”

Knows Way Want Reason Actors Rooms Creative Directors Tables I Want You Editing Masterpiece Input

Author:Cuba Gooding, Jr.

“As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.”

Actors Waiting Casts

Author:Mia Wasikowska

“As an actor you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don't see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities.”

Eye Turns Actors Understanding Rights Mystery Sexuality Privacy Public Eye

Author:Ben Whishaw

“As an actor you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.”

Want Long Actors Like You Long Time Consistently

Author:Mike Colter

“As an actor you really want to push yourself, and there's no better way than to do an intense drama.”

Way Want Actors Drama Intense Better Ways Push Yourself

Author:Matthew Lewis

“As an actor you use your imagination to put yourself in the shoes of bad guy characters. You create a story as to why you are doing it. You are finding what drives people to do this.”

People Character Guy Imagination

Author:David Dayan Fisher

“As an actor you want people to know you and there are times you want your pictures taken, but it's unnerving to walk out of a venue with friends and there are 20 people flashing lights in your face. Do you know how bright those lights are?”

People Knows Want Light Faces Actors Walks Know How Taken Do You Know Your Face Venues Picture Taken Flashing Lights

Author:Ashley Greene

“As an actor you want to explore something you haven't done.”

Done

Author:Jeremy Piven

“As an actor you want to just like, act as much as possible.”

Want Actors

Author:Alia Shawkat

“As an actor you're only as good as the things you're offered. And there just weren't any female directors offering me things. So when you dissect that, you realize there aren't women offering you things because they don't have the opportunities. I work to raise money for women's cancers; I use my voice for violence against women.”

Opportunity Realizing Violence Female Cancer

Author:Nicole Kidman

“As an actor you're only supposed to be a lover. I am a romantic hero though I don't like that tag. With all the hardships, problems, illness, goodness, badness, awards and money... an actor will always be a lover. And a lover makes mistakes. You'll be silly, nonsensical and stupid.”

Problem Actors Mistake Stupid Hero Lovers Goodness Illness Silly Supposed To Be Making Mistakes Hardship Awards Tag Badness Nonsensical Being Silly

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.”

Used Actors Attention Focus

Author:Yasmine Bleeth

“As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.”

Want Actors Good Work

Author:Michelle Fairley

“As an actor, and especially as a young woman, there's so much pressure to look good all the time and it really detracts from what our job really is about, which is portraying a different person.”

Looks Persons Different Jobs Young Actors Pressure Young Women Portraying

Author:Emmy Rossum

“As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful.”

Character Helping Actors Helpful

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“As an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.”

I Can Actors Standpoint

Author:Megan Hilty

“As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.”

Actors Worst Worst Things Autopilot

Author:Matthew Perry

“As an actor, demonstrating your feelings in front of people is not what you're supposed to be doing. You're supposed to hold your emotions and control them, and not show them all over the place.”

People Shows Feelings Actors Emotion Fronts Supposed To Be Doing You Demonstrating

Author:James Hong

“As an actor, director or writer you never want to be doing one thing. To show that diversity and be able to do more than one thing, and to play different characters, is part of the job that I'm supposed to do. Hopefully, I can continue doing that.”

Different Character Diversity Hopefully

Author:Noel Clarke

“As an actor, doing animation is definitely on the list of most actors because it is such a freeing, fun, different experience than being on camera. There's just something different about it that's not more fun, but a different sort of fun.”

Different Actors Fun Cameras Lists Animation Different Experiences

Author:Eric Stonestreet

“As an actor, doing it for 30 years, with every movie, you're trying to figure out a way to make it more naturalistic and more organic to humanity. When you have lines like, "Never let the monster out," it's hard.”

Way Trying Years Hard Humanity Actors Lines Figures Monsters

Author:Josh Brolin

“As an actor, early on, you learn that the audience is never wrong. And if you think they are wrong, you need to find a different way to make a living. Collectively the audience is smarter than you will ever, ever be.”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Different Actors Audience Different Ways Smarter

Author:William H. Macy

“As an actor, especially one who's worked in casting, you read so many scripts, and some of them are terrible. They're terrible and they're getting made, and some of them are good but the female role is just painful or underwritten. So after years of that, I had this idea kicking around in my head for two years, and I thought, I'm just going to start writing.”

Writing Terrible Female Painful

Author:Erin Maya Darke

“As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.”

Ifs Would Be Actors Hollywood Horrible Invited Places To Go

Author:Douglas Booth

“As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.”

Different Actors Genre Theme

Author:Sanjay Dutt

“As an actor, I don't feel like it's necessary to watch a great deal of films. In fact, I think it can lead to imitation and unhealthy competition, which just isn't needed.”

Thinking Film Competition Imitation

Author:Christian Bale

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