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“As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my god, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'”

Trying Reason Film Actors Fans Spokes Being Cool

Author:Rafe Spall

“As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.”

Trying Feelings Actors Emotional Authenticity Resonance

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.”

Trying Littles Actors Bits Little Bit

Author:Michael Cudlitz

“As an actor, you use the things from yourself that you can apply to the character.”

Character Use Actors

Author:Robert De Niro

“As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.”

Actors Live Your Life

Author:Molly Parker

“As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you're holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it's one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you're lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category.”

Ifs Shows Hands Actors Opportunity Realizing Careers Roles Special Tvs Lucky Pages Scripts Memorable Categories Tv Shows Lucky You

Author:Holt McCallany

“As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.”

Want Feels Trying Different Actors Directors Comfortable Different Things

Author:Ansel Elgort

“As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.”

Want Actors Variety Chords Muster

Author:Michelle Forbes

“As an actor, you want people to see you as a whole person, not just a single facet of your emotional spectrum. And whether it's the audience or the industry, you end up getting pigeonholed as one thing. So for people to see I can be funny and stay in shape is a bit of a weight off my shoulders.”

People Want Persons I Can Ends Whole Actors Bits Audience One Thing Emotional Industry Shapes Weight Shoulders Spectrum Facets Whole Person

Author:Scott Porter

“As an actor, you want to be open to the unexpected. So in order to be open to that, you do have to get out of your discursive mind just like in any creative process, this isn't just about acting. So you have to learn a little bit how to work with your own mind.”

Mind Acting Creative Unexpected Creative Process

Author:Annette Bening

“As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.”

Want Jobs Actors Interesting Scripts Do The Best Best Job

Author:Mark Strickson

“As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.”

Want Use Actors Demon

Author:Skeet Ulrich

“As an actor, you want to push yourself.”

Want Actors Push Yourself

Author:Sarah Baker

“As an actor, you want to remain vulnerable. You don't want to always have all the answers and you want to be fine doing things in the moment with your fellow actors.”

Want Moments Actors Answers Fine Fellows Vulnerable

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.”

Ifs Play Character Able Actors Reactions Worried

Author:Jessica Capshaw

“As an actor, you'll have ten parts in 2015 - eight of them will go to the other actors above you and two of them you might be close to, and you try to make them as good as you can.”

Trying Two Might Actors Ten Eight

Author:Matt Smith

“As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.”

Want Actors Color Painting Directors Paint Canvas Palette

Author:Denzel Washington

“As an actor, you're afforded these experiences that are once-in-a-lifetime for so many people. More often than not, you can't tell the seasons based on the changing of the leaves, but on the experiences you've had.”

People

Author:Walton Goggins

“As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.”

People Ifs Way Play Hands Film Night Actors Vision Directors Opening Opening Night

Author:Jeff Daniels

“As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice.”

Choices Actors Situation Areas Compromise Gray Wipe Gray Area

Author:Kyle MacLachlan

“As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.”

People Kind Different Actors Identity Crisis Different Peoples Identity Crisis

Author:Josh Hutcherson

“As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.”

Reading Actors Scripts

Author:Kevin Nealon

“As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past and amazing things that they've done, I came across a book about Howard Hughes and he was set up as basically, the most multi-dimensional character I could ever come across. Often, people have tried to define him in biographies, but no one seems to be able to categorize him.”

People Book Done Character Seems Able Past Actors Our Past Biographies Amazing Things Great Character

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“As an actor, you're just brought on to fill one role, so it's nice to see what the entire journey is like. As much as I'd be allowed to do it, I would do it. I love it.”

Actors Roles Nice Journey

Author:Shiri Appleby

“As an actor, you're just taking temperature. I am anyway, all the time, and responding appropriately. I was again cast very last-minute for Rushmore and met Wes Anderson, this quite physically and socially awkward man who didn't really talk to me much, a precocious and intelligent young boy. And Bill Murray. And we were sort of left in this bizarre hotel together and taken to strange locations around Houston. That was quite an isolating experience.”

Men Together Boys Taken Strange Intelligent Hotel Awkward Bizarre Talk To Me

Author:Olivia Williams

“As an actor, you're kind of aware of everything, or you try to be, so you take in certain habits or find certain things, such as how someone sits or how demure they are. You get those things about everybody.”

Trying Kind Certain Actors Habit Demure

Author:Cedric Yarbrough

“As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there you have to produce that yourself.”

Giving Trying Persons Actors Produce Listening Always Trying

Author:Tatiana Maslany

“As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.”

Actors Naked Revealing

Author:Carla Gugino

“As an actor, you're never busy enough.”

Enough Actors Busy

Author:Bryan Callen

“As an actor, you're never really in control of the product. I think the goal is to create what you want. And if you can get as close as you can get to the creation of something, it starts with development.”

Ifs Thinking Want Actors Goal Creation Products Development What You Want

Author:Scott Cohen

“As an actor, you're only one little piece of the puzzle; you're fulfilling someone else's vision. If you're involved earlier on, you're kind of creating your own.”

Ifs Kind Littles Actors Vision Pieces Involved Creating Fulfilling Puzzles

Author:Julia Stiles

“As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.”

People Want Reading Actors Pages Gun You Re Pretty

Author:Corey Feldman

“As an actor, you're putting yourself out there when you perform. You're bound to experience feelings of vulnerability because of this.”

Feelings Actors Bounds Vulnerability Putting Yourself Out There

Author:Mpho Koaho

“As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.”

Character Actors Court Lawyer

Author:Vera Farmiga

“As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it is awesome.”

Different Character Able Form Actors Roles Transformation Supposed To Be Different Characters

Author:Katie Cassidy

“As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with...”

People Actors Lines Right Thing Politically Correct

Author:Idris Elba

“As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.”

Character Used Actors Becoming Research Becoming Someone Becoming Someone Else

Author:Angela Bassett

“As an actor, you've got to maintain a bit of mystery and at least part of your private life, otherwise the game is up.”

Actors Games Bits Mystery Private Life

Author:Max Beesley

“As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.”

Important Actors Study Life Experience

Author:Jane Badler

“As an actor, your main goal is to tell the truth.”

Actors Goal Telling The Truth

Author:Johnathon Schaech

“As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie.”

Actors Crazy Responsible Motive

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“As an actor, your text is your bible, so you're not making a documentary, but you still have to follow the choices made by your writer.”

Made Stills Choices Actors Documentaries Choices Made

Author:Natalie Dormer

“As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.”

Actors Directors Nervous

Author:Kevin Spacey

“As an actor, you’ve got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident in yourself.”

Kind Hard Form Actors Shells Be Confident Live And Learn Confident In Yourself

Author:Jessica Stroup

“As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?”

Children Kids Night Fans Huge Performances Actresses London Theatre Favourite Pizza Snacks Tricycles

Author:Arabella Weir

“As an actress and just as a person, I've kind of been in a little bit of a bubble. So it was so great for me to see where I could go as an actress and to be around incredible people who are much more experienced than I am, like Harmony [Korine], James [Franco], and Vanessa [Hudgens].”

People Kind Littles Persons Bits Little Bit Harmony Incredibles Actresses Bubbles Franco

Author:Selena Gomez

“As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.”

Poverty Actresses Familiar

Author:Martha Plimpton

“As an actress I am always interested in the new writers.”

Actresses

Author:Donna McKechnie

“As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.”

Ifs Feels Jobs Actresses Inhibitions

Author:Sienna Miller

“As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.”

Want Acting Please Directors Actresses Enjoyable

Author:Joan Chen

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