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“As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.”

“As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.”

Way I Can Actors Lines Roles

Author:Jennifer Westfeldt

“As an actor, I've always paid attention on sets. I've always watched, learned and listened, and you start to see things differently. You always leave yourself an out.”

Actors Attention Paid

Author:Eric Balfour

“As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.”

Way Said Hate Actors Half Audience Love You Easier Hate You Just Live

Author:Ioan Gruffudd

“As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.”

May Character Actors

Author:Kurt Sutter

“As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.”

Years Actors Audience Taken Stage Fronts Scene Comfortable Romantic Dancing

Author:Sanjay Dutt

“As an actor, I've just gotten insanely lucky. I quite like being surrounded by lots of different talented people lots of different times a year.”

People Years Different Actors Lucky Different Times

Author:Domhnall Gleeson

“As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is a thief, you have to figure out what makes them a thief. Whatever the prevailing idiosyncrasy is, I have to find it in the script.”

Ifs Persons Character Actors Figures Scripts I've Learned Thieves Detectives Prevailing Idiosyncrasies

Author:Octavia Spencer

“As an actor, if I just did sci-fi, I think it would get limiting, like if you just play lawyers or doctors, over and over. It's a lot more fun, if you get to play lots of different types of characters.”

Ifs Thinking Different Play Character Actors Fun Type Doctors Lawyer Over It Sci Fi

Author:Tricia Helfer

“As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.”

Ifs Way Shows Actors Late Acceptable Eccentric

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“As an actor, if you step to the side and you look at [Thornton's performance] technically, and you try to imagine doing what he was doing, most people would panic. Most people would be on the set, and they would be panicking, going, "I'm not doing anything!" All the ham instincts in you would be screaming, "You've got to indicate something here." And it's beautiful, in a way. And so I appreciate, even as an audience member, the courage that it takes to be... frankly, to be subtle.”

People Ifs Way Trying Looks Would Be Beautiful Actors Sides Steps Audience Imagine Members Appreciate Performances Instinct Subtle Panic Ham

Author:Edward Norton

“As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.”

Ifs Want Running Actors Shooting Naps Trailers

Author:Misha Collins

“As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.”

Ifs Actors Acting Letting Go Simplify

Author:Derek Magyar

“As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.”

Ifs Knows Mind Sometimes Actors Picks Sitting Machines Cameras Who You Are Staring Rays Vacant

Author:Albert Brooks

“As an actor, it doesn't happen often that somebody sends you a script that is first of all that good.”

Firsts Happens Actors Scripts

Author:Patrick Huard

“As an actor, it made me realize a really important lesson. I didn't have to put any spin on the ball as Rita [in Dexter]. All I had to do was speak. And there was such simplicity in that as an actor. With Debra, I was trying to put a square peg into a round hole, and it just didn't work, but in my mind, because I had to work so hard on it, I was, like, "Oh, this is acting!" But that's not acting.”

Trying Mind Made Important Hard Actors Speak Realizing Acting Lessons Balls Rounds Simplicity Holes Squares Important Lessons Peg Square Pegs

Author:Julie Benz

“As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a certain degree you're at the mercy of what is available, what you're reading, what you become passionate about, and ultimately, what people want to hire you for.”

People Want Writing Jobs Certain Reading Actors Degrees Mercy Passionate Available Passive

Author:Elijah Wood

“As an actor, it's all about whether you can sell the emotion on your face... that desperation, the panic and rage that comes with combat. The emotion of combat is important to me. I mean, you feel almost sick if you see a real fight where someone is getting badly beaten up. You can get emotionally involved in combat that has nothing to do with you in real-life, let alone if you are actually in it... or it's someone you know, and so you should have those same feelings on film.”

Mean Important Real Feelings Film Fighting Emotion Sick Rage Your Face Desperation

Author:Joey Ansah

“As an actor, it's always been good to be working at all.”

Actors

Author:Michael Fassbender

“As an actor, it's always fun when you're able to feel like there's freedom to explore things and try out jokes and be funny.”

Feels Trying Able Actors Fun Jokes

Author:Busy Philipps

“As an actor, it's always important to understand what the director is after. That, to me, is my job. When I'm acting, I like to ask a lot of questions and understand exactly why the director is doing what they're doing, so that I can provide him or her with the ingredients that they need to get the scene that they want. It's not to challenge them, in any way. It's just so that I can do my job best.”

Way Want Needs I Can Important Jobs Actors Asks Can Do Challenges Acting Scene Directors Ingredients

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“As an actor, it's better to just be more loose and give yourself over. That's always fun. It's fun to just let go and be somebody else.”

Giving Actors Fun Letting Go Just Let Go

Author:Mike White

“As an actor, it's exhausting being someone else. It's not physically demanding, but it's mentally demanding, if you do the job the way you should.”

Ifs Way Should Jobs Actors Exhausting

Author:Brendan Fehr

“As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.”

Play Guy Certain Actors Fun Standards Males Patterns Locked Macho

Author:Fred Ward

“As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.”

Heart Play Actors Strong Leadership Leader Gold Strong Leaders Heart Of Gold

Author:John C. McGinley

“As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but you've really got to wait it out and be resilient and keep it going and keep everybody motivated.”

Hard Hate Actors Games Waiting Direct I Hate Motivated Resilient

Author:Danny Huston

“As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?”

Play Actors Fun Interesting Morning Worry Hair Angle Nerd

Author:Nicholas Brendon

“As an actor, it's much, much easier to be really nasty to someone that you really like.”

Actors Easier Nasty

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.”

Ifs Wells Jobs Actors Interesting Exciting Stealing

Author:Allison Mack

“As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.”

Ifs Character Jobs Actors Roles Realistic

Author:Arjun Rampal

“As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.”

Thinking Way Play Character Might Jobs Actors Happened Latches

Author:Justin Timberlake

“As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.”

Use Actors Directors Bigger Paint Brushes Bigger Picture

Author:Eric Balfour

“As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don't have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it's a nightmare. So, I like film - nice short takes.”

Film Attitude Forever Nice Cutting Dialogue Filmmaker Nightmare My Attitude

Author:Michael Caine

“As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.”

Writing Actors Roles Focus Findings Attacking Good Writing

Author:Amanda Peet

“As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.”

People Matter Actors No Matter What Whim

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.”

Want Courses Actors Successful

Author:Marina Sirtis

“As an actor, often you're stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them - for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know.”

Ifs Knows Years Might Actors Example Periods Scene Decades Stuck

Author:Aden Young

“As an actor, one is so appreciative when one is working. I think I am lucky that I have the opportunity to work having that total dependence on an external validation.”

Thinking Actors Opportunity Lucky Dependence Validation Appreciative

Author:Andrew Garfield

“As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.”

Actors Memories Losing Greatest Fear

Author:Michael Learned

“As an actor, or as a person, I like to do things that are challenging.”

Persons Actors Challenges

Author:Joanne Froggatt

“As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.”

Looks Character Body Actors Roles Color Hair Appearance Character Actors Physical Appearance

Author:Lynn Redgrave

“As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.”

People Trying Jobs Actors Television Tvs Losing Theatre

Author:Andrew Rannells

“As an actor, people are always criticizing you so it just made me fall in love with myself.”

People Made Fall Actors Falling In Love Criticize

Author:Andrea Hall

“As an actor, rejection is a big part of it, and I've had a lot of it. So when there's something that you really want to do, it's so great to have someone to be a part of a team as great as this team is.”

Want Bigs Actors Team Rejection

Author:Nick Jonas

“As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.”

Wells Actors Directors Brilliant Excellent Sean

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.”

Feels Sometimes Actors Pressure Change Yourself

Author:Charlie Day

“As an actor, that's nerve-wracking enough [drunk and doing coke] because you have to do it at the right level.”

Enough Actors Levels Drunk Nerves Coke

Author:Ray Romano

“As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.”

People Stories Actors Can Do Best Things

Author:Austin Peck

“As an actor, that's the most important thing. You want to be able to let go and not hold onto anything, so that you can give an honest portrayal and performance.”

Want Giving Important Able Actors Honest Letting Go Performances Important Things Portrayal

Author:James Wolk

“As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.”

Believe Book Character Actors Compliment Compliments You

Author:Matt LeBlanc

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