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“As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.”

I Can Actors Voice Levels Disappear Driven Disorder Obsessive Fixation Mimicry Obsessive Compulsive Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Author:Edward Norton

“As an actor, I don't know what I'm doing. I've never known what I was doing. I show up the first day, I'm scared, and I just hang out. It's like being in detention - you just wait for it to be over. Then gradually I start to figure out what's going on.”

Waiting Scared Hanging Out

Author:Michael Shannon

“As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.”

Thinking Way Mean Actors Boring Finding Yourself Bad Things Adjusting

Author:Justin Chon

“As an actor, I enjoy variety. That's a big thing for me.”

Bigs Actors Enjoy Variety Big Things

Author:Tom Ellis

“As an actor, I feel like I'm somebody who, when somebody gives me a mark, I don't want to hit it. I don't like that. But then, without even knowing it, I just hit it.”

Want Giving Feels Actors Knowing Give Me Mark

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“As an actor, I feel like youre asked to live life as vibrantly as possible.”

Feels Actors Like You Live Life

Author:Stana Katic

“As an actor, I feel that my work makes me very vulnerable. I have to be emotionally available to serve the scene I'm doing. You never quite know where your emotions will take you.”

Knows Feels Actors Emotion Scene Available Vulnerable Never Quit Doing You

Author:Jacob Vargas

“As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.”

Men Actors Felt Competition Brilliant Cute Robins

Author:Phil Hartman

“As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing, because otherwise it will look like it's not real.”

Believe Looks Real Character Actors Compassion Empathy Percent Function Compassion And Empathy

Author:Clare Bowen

“As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.”

Writing Actors Lines Bottom Bottom Line Good Writing

Author:Glenn Close

“As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.”

Jobs Order Actors Issues Trouble Directors Producers Chains Minorities Casting Making A Living Food Chain Control Issues Trouble Making Pecking Order

Author:B. D. Wong

“As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.”

Play Actors Roles Journey Fulfilled

Author:Juliette Binoche

“As an actor, I have to watch people and observe their behaviors - this is how I create characters.”

People Character Actors Watches Behavior

Author:Josh McDermitt

“As an actor, I know immediately if I'm saying a word that doesn't feel right coming out of my mouth, and I know how to change it. But as a director watching something, or even as a writer reading a script, sometimes it's not always clear what needs to be fixed.”

Ifs Knows Needs Feels Sometimes Reading Actors Know How Clear Directors Mouths Scripts Fixed Coming Out Feels Right Writers Reading

Author:Scott Foley

“As an actor, I know that any feelings you're showing are manufactured. But I still don't want to fool my mind into thinking my wife`s into another guy.”

Thinking Knows Want Mind Stills Feelings Guy Actors Wife Fool My Wife Other Guys

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.”

Actors Opportunity Given Materials Tvs Scene Series Luxury Time Spent Tv Series

Author:Vincent Piazza

“As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.”

Knows Kind Mean Character Actors Bits Five Nice Crazy Six Pages Pace Momentum

Author:Colm Meaney

“As an actor, I look at first what I can borrow from what I really feel.”

Feels Firsts Looks I Can Actors

Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten

“As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.”

Looks Actors Happened Scene Directors

Author:Jensen Ackles

“As an actor, I look for the part itself. I look for the story and the role. If there's no money, but it's a good part in a good role, I'll still consider it. Basically, the worse the role is, the worse the story is, and the more they'll have to pay me. It's a simple correlation.”

Simple No Money

Author:Bruce Campbell

“As an actor, I love being pushed. I love the feeling of, "Oh my god, I have to keep trying. What else is there to do?".”

Trying Feelings Actors Love Is Keep Trying

Author:Shiri Appleby

“As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.”

Actors Directors Working With Others

Author:Ray Stevenson

“As an actor, I need to get excited about something that I can actually relate to.”

Needs I Can Actors Excited Relate

Author:Mike Colter

“As an actor, I never really had a strategy. I just take projects, as they come. It all comes down to the writing, at the end of the day, for me. I don't care if it's a two-line cameo or the lead of the thing, as long as the project has some weight behind the writing and it's interesting and I think people will enjoy it.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Long Two Ends Care Actors Enjoy Lines Interesting Behinds Projects Weight Strategy Don't Care I Don't Care The End Of The Day Cameos

Author:Chris Vance

“As an actor, I only play what is in the moment, rather than in the future, but sometimes the past is more important than what is coming up in the future.”

Important Sometimes Play Moments Past Actors

Author:John Barrowman

“As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.”

Thinking Actors Genius Philip

Author:Simon Cowell

“As an actor, I relish and delight in doing things that I'm not necessarily the demographic for. This is a demographic that is touching the psyche of a certain age group, facing the real internal questions of people who are going through rites of passage into adulthood. It's earth-shaking stuff.”

People Real Age Earth Certain Actors Stuff Groups Delight Internals Touching Passages Adulthood Shaking Relish Demographics Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Ray Stevenson

“As an actor, I started using dreams more, which is not mystical or anything like that. I just found that I've been using that as a tool to give me another point of view towards the work. It's often surprising but really helpful.”

Giving Dream Actors Found Views Tools Give Me Point Of View Helpful Working It Surprising Mystical

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“As an actor, I still dont really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.”

Knows Stills Actors

Author:Sam Riley

“As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.”

Stills Actors Letting Go Repeats Daring

Author:Alicia Vikander

“As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.”

Actors Enjoy Sides Dark Dark Side

Author:Dean Winters

“As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.”

Thinking Play Actors Mistake Storyteller

Author:John Hawkes

“As an actor, I think every moment in your life is giving you a new set of tools. You’re constantly absorbing new information that you can put back onto the screen.”

Thinking Giving Moments Life Is Actors Information Tools Screens Absorbing New Information

Author:Charlie Day

“As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.”

Thinking Important Character Life Is Actors Liberty

Author:Ashley Rickards

“As an actor, I think most people have a tendency to want to demonstrate that they can act, they can emote.”

People Thinking Want Actors Tendencies Emote

Author:James Norton

“As an actor, I think sort of relish the chance to take a leap and sort of put yourself out there. You know, it's, like on any film, you just have to be willing to embarrass yourself, because otherwise you are not going to really reveal anything that you have. So I think it's exciting.”

Thinking Knows Film Actors Chance Willing Exciting Leap Relish Putting Yourself Out There

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“As an actor, I think you can get really bad habits, if you do the same thing, every day. You can get stuck in a rut. So, I like jumping between genres, and then taking a break and learning something new. I like feeling like I'm still learning.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Feelings Actors Break Habit Stuck Genre Something New Jumping Get Real Bad Habits Ruts Learning Something New Taking A Break Stuck In A Rut

Author:Brie Larson

“As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.”

Actors Travel Towns Entertainment Bars Hotel Funny Travel Hospitality

Author:Beau Bridges

“As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.”

Play Character Order Actors

Author:Lorraine Toussaint

“As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don't want my work to be all the same. The more this can be done with comfort, the more variety my work has had.”

Want Giving Done Actors Comfort Directors Variety Collaboration

Author:Jack Nicholson

“As an actor, I was not accepted for the longest time. But it did not deter me, as the audience had accepted me. I never compared myself with any other actors. I never had any game plan and took whatever came my way.”

Way Actors Games Audience Plans Accepted My Way Game Plan

Author:Emraan Hashmi

“As an actor, I was taught, from an early age, that secrets are the most powerful thing that you can have on screen, and that what you withhold is as important as what you share.”

Important Age Actors Powerful Secret Share Taught Screens Most Powerful

Author:Rose McIver

“As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.”

Actors Bits Roles

Author:Miranda Otto

“As an actor, I'll play anything.”

Play Actors

Author:Michael Caine

“As an actor, I'll take any job.”

Jobs Actors

Author:Maria Thayer

“As an actor, I'm always looking for scripts that I relate to, in some way, and things that are interesting and different. If it's combining romance and action, I'm not missing out on anything. I get to do it all.”

Ifs Way Different Action Romance Actors Interesting Missing Scripts Relate Combining Missing Out

Author:Liam Hemsworth

“As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.”

People Character Actors Focus Directors Solitary Ensemble

Author:Jodie Foster

“As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.”

I Can Stories Bigs Actors Serious Drama Directors Actresses Theme Story Of My Life

Author:Jodie Foster

“As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.”

Giving Trying Actors Energy Familiar Down Time

Author:Iain Glen

“As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.”

Character Actors Acting Vision Portraying

Author:Denzel Whitaker

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