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“As an actor, you can't judge. A great actress from Spain said, "We, the actors, are lawyers of the characters we play. We have to defend them, no matter what."”

Said Matter Play Character Actors Judging No Matter What Actresses Lawyer Spain

Author:Javier Bardem

“As an actor, you can't play big, huge things. But, what you can play is love for your father and caring for your daughter and being afraid, and having to dig deep and find out what you're made of. All of those things have been incredibly fun to play.”

Has Beens Made Play Bigs Actors Father Fun Huge Daughter Caring Being Afraid Our Daughter Your Daughter Dig Deep

Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten

“As an actor, you can't say, "I'm going to try to be cool at all cost when I do this," because that's the opposite of what you need to do as an actor.”

Needs Trying Actors Cost Opposites Being Cool

Author:Tim McGraw

“As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.”

Three Actors Imagination Deals Fantasy Weapons Concentration Bullets

Author:Rob Lowe

“As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.”

Actors Deals Good Things Instinct Rejection Humiliation Trust Your Instincts

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged.”

Actors Comedy Type

Author:Octavia Spencer

“As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.”

Want Actors Hollywood

Author:Danny McBride

“As an actor, you don't want to ever get too comfortable where you're like, "I know this character," and you don't do the work anymore. Then, there's something that you're going to miss. If you always stay hungry to learn more about your character, that's a healthy thing, while having a great sense of who she is, at the core.”

Ifs Knows Want Character Actors Missing Healthy Comfortable Core Hungry

Author:Shanola Hampton

“As an actor, you don't want to know the beginning and end to your character's arc. It makes it more fun. You're not playing the end. You're playing it realistically. You don't know where this character is going to go and what's going to happen to him, which just makes it more interesting for the viewers to watch. They're going on the journey with you, as the actor and the character.”

Knows Want Ends Character Happens Actors Fun Interesting Watches Journey Viewers Arcs Beginnings And Ends

Author:Jordan Gavaris

“As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.”

Want Play Character Actors

Author:Olga Kurylenko

“As an actor, you generally don’t get to choose what projects you are part of, so I’ve been very fortunate that The Book of Mormon was something I got to be part of. I don’t want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.”

Way Want Book Actors Projects Theater Musical Fortunate Thrilling Lofty Musical Theater Groundbreaking

Author:Andrew Rannells

“As an actor, you generally want to see the other actor's face.”

Want Faces Actors

Author:Bob Newhart

“As an actor, you get hired for what you last did. And I guess it just becomes your choice or obligation to do different things.”

Different Lasts Choices Actors Obligation Different Things

Author:Jason Bateman

“As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.”

Actors Repeats

Author:Paul McGann

“As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.”

Actors Critics

Author:Joe Regalbuto

“As an actor, you get to live out many professions. I just want to continue to evolve. My one goal in this business is just longevity and respect, and that's something I'll always have to work toward.”

Want Actors Goal Profession Evolve Longevity

Author:Jerry Ferrara

“As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.”

Play Character Age Actors Term Range Life Experience Back And Forth Bounce

Author:Jonathan Keltz

“As an actor, you go through life thinking "This stop is the last stop," so you just put your heart and soul into everything and do your best work.”

Thinking Heart Soul Lasts Actors Heart And Soul Best Work

Author:Elizabeth Banks

“As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time; you have no idea whether you're capable of it.”

Feels Firsts Ideas Actors Like You Capable First Time No Idea

Author:Brit Marling

“As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don't say is more important than what you say. That's not so much the case for stage.”

Important Facts Body Eye Film Actors Process Voice Emotion Cases Stage Tools Communicate Your Body Thought Process

Author:Hugh Jackman

“As an actor, you have no control really.”

Actors

Author:Dennis Hopper

“As an actor, you have to be able to take all sides as well. You have to at least be able to understand things. No bad guy looks in the mirror every morning and says, boy, I'm gonna be a real bad guy this morning. He goes after his own what he's after, just like us good guys. You kind of have to take a stand and, a lot of times, you have to take the writer's stand or the stand of the character this writer has created.”

Wells Looks Kind Real Character Able Guy Actors Sides Boys Morning Mirrors Every Morning Bad Guys Good Guy

Author:Michael McKean

“As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.”

Looks Actors Stupid

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“As an actor, you have to do things out of passion sometimes. I'm not in it for a lot of money. But I only need one car, and I'd rather work with people I really do respect and admire. And if you walk that path, you don't get written about too much in the tabloids, and I'm good with that.”

People Sometimes Passion Path Car Admire

Author:Peter Stormare

“As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.”

Used Actors Skins Thick Thick Skin

Author:Emun Elliott

“As an actor, you have to have trust and believe that somebody is taking care of you or watching your back. With a part like this, especially with where we're going with it, I can't pull any punches. I can't do it halfway, especially when you're dealing with madness and this descent into madness.”

Believe I Can Care Actors Madness Halfway Descent Trust And Believe

Author:Jessica Lange

“As an actor, you have to have your history.”

Actors

Author:Nora Dunn

“As an actor, you have to just think about the truth of your character. You have to think about how to play the character in the way that you know it needs to be played in your heart and why you were hired.”

Thinking Knows Way Needs Heart Play Character Actors

Author:Emma Stone

“As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.”

Ifs Artist Actors Challenges Roles Audience Messages Blessed Carrie Impart

Author:Michelle Yeoh

“As an actor, you hope to obtain this mind meld and sometimes I feel like I'm chasing a horse holding on to its tail and getting dragged, and other times I feel much more velcroed into the saddle. And I'm not the knower of which is better or best as a process, it's just as random as the weather in terms of what my subjective experience is.”

Mind Sometimes Term Horse Holding On

Author:Diane Lane

“As an actor, you know when you've got great material in front of you. When you're working, you think, 'Is this the one? The one that everyone will respond to and be moved by?' You pray that you have told the story well... that your peers will see it and audiences will love it.”

Thinking Knows Wells Stories Actors Audience Fronts Materials Praying Moved Peers Demian

Author:Demian Bichir

“As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.”

Knows Actors Who I Am

Author:Kathryn Hahn

“As an actor, you learn, every time you work.”

Actors

Author:Mike Colter

“As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.”

Thinking Lonely Finding Yourself All Alone Time To Think

Author:Melissa Leo

“As an actor, you look at some people and know if they're there with you or not.”

People Ifs Knows Looks Actors

Author:Finn Wittrock

“As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress.”

Ifs Believe May Doe Reason Political Actors I Believe Progress Ugly Politically Correct

Author:Rosie Perez

“As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.”

Play Actors Exciting Average Extremes Versions

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“As an actor, you need that constant change, or things will get stale.”

Needs Actors Constant Stale

Author:Tyler Posey

“As an actor, you never know where the works going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.”

Knows Actors Flexible

Author:Lesley Nicol

“As an actor, you never really set out to be a stand-out character. You just want to do justice to the story and enjoy playing it, and find all the different nooks and crannies of who someone is. For each part that you get, they're all special and you just try to give everything you can to each one. I don't know whether they're going to be stand out in that way or not factors into my work. They all stand out for me.”

Giving Trying Different Character Enjoy Justice Special Standing Out

Author:Deborah Ann Woll

“As an actor, you never try to be someone else. You can't.”

Trying Actors

Author:Liam McIntyre

“As an actor, you never want to feel like a tool. You never want to feel like, "Hey, just come here, say this, stop here, look this way," and that's it. You want to have a little input.”

Way Want Feels Looks Littles Actors Tools Hey Input

Author:Michael B. Jordan

“As an actor, you only get to work 15 minutes an hour; as a director you're fully immersed. It's incredibly more complex and challenging and I love it. I'm sort of a glutton for work and to direct something that I'm acting in feeds the vein.”

Actors Hours Challenges Acting Minutes Directors Direct Complexes Veins

Author:Jason Bateman

“As an actor, you people-watch, you observe. And the more famous you become, the sad thing is you lose the ability to do that. Instead of people-watching, you become the focus of attention.”

Ability Attention Focus

Author:Gary Oldman

“As an actor, you realize that your whole life is about arrivals and departures. You're always meeting people, you get really close, and then you all have to leave.”

People Whole Life Is Actors Realizing Meetings Whole Life Get Real Departure Arrivals

Author:Jane Levy

“As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.”

People Want Stills Character Today Actors Audience Streets Approach

Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.”

Should Actors Challenges Willing

Author:Wilmer Valderrama

“As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes.”

World Stories Eye Actors Seeing Directors Seeing The World

Author:Jonah Hill

“As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.”

Thinking Sometimes Actors Cry Scene Be Good

Author:Berenice Bejo

“As an actor, you travel so much. It isn't great for a marriage.”

Actors

Author:Mila Kunis

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