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“I don't have a burning desire to act strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.”

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Author:Tobey Maguire

“In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.”

Actors Childhood Good Childhood

Author:William H. Macy

“When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.”

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Author:William H. Macy

“I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.”

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Author:Alessandro Nivola

“The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.”

Stills Able Actors Accents

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.”

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Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.”

People Different Character Actors Acting Comfortable Like Me Escapism Character Actors

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.”

Play Guy Actors Winning Fun Awards Bad Guys

Author:Dean Norris

“For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.”

Different Character Dream Actors Dreams Come True

Author:Dean Norris

“I think actors who take things too far are funny.”

Thinking Actors

Author:Dean Norris

“As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.”

Knows Needs Character Actors Backgrounds

Author:John Noble

“It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.”

Ifs Persons Important Actors Stuff Creative Involving Creative Person

Author:Ajay Naidu

“If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.”

Ifs Actors If I Could

Author:Ben Nicholas

“One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.”

Actors Cases Extroverts

Author:Bill Nighy

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

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Author:Chris Noth

“I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.”

Knows I Can Stories Actors Materials Hollywood Hungry

Author:Chris Noth

“Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.”

Ifs Years Stories Law Order Actors Five Bounds Driven Bored Five Years Format Law And Order Characterless

Author:Chris Noth

“I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.”

Actors Nervous

Author:Corin Nemec

“It would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain that cappucinos have something to do with it.”

Trying Would Be Certain Actors Hollywood Statements Daily Life

Author:Corin Nemec

“I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano: I was a theatre actor.”

Actors Theatre Theatre Actors

Author:Franco Nero

“The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.”

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Author:Ivor Novello

“I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.”

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Author:Jeremy Northam

“I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.”

Thinking Actors Fun Normal

Author:Lucas Neff

“I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.”

Young Actors Acting Havens Young Actors

Author:Lucas Neff

“There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of embrace who the actors are and try to make the roles more specific to what they bring and what they can do.”

Trying Shows Happens Actors Can Do Roles Tvs Embrace Tv Shows Great Writers

Author:Lucas Neff

“You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.”

People Thinking Choices Actors Access

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“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

“When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.”

Different Kids Wanted Actors Fun Chance Couple Different Things

Author:Navid Negahban

“Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.”

Want Enough Actors Offers Busy

Author:Sam Neill

“I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.”

World Actors Acting Sea Elements Bizarre

Author:Sam Neill

“When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.”

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Author:Sam Neill

“I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.”

Ifs Knows Want Actors Acting Doubt Comedy Dramatic

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“The biggest thing people tell me is that I'll be jaded real soon and that the allure of filmmaking will lose its magic. Not necessarily the fame, but that special thing you create onscreen.”

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Author:Dayo Okeniyi

“My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.”

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Author:Dylan O'Brien

“Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.”

Lasts Actors Pieces Involved Conversation Tools Productions Puzzles

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.”

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Author:Haley Joel Osment

“I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.”

Wells Actors Known Well Known Dependable

Author:Nick Offerman

“The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.”

Firsts Actors Horse Riding Cowboy

Author:Richard O'Brien

“If I'm bringing joy to people and entertaining people as an actor, then I should be grateful for that and act accordingly, you know?”

People Ifs Knows Should Joy Actors Grateful Entertaining Be Grateful Bringing Joy

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“Where I come from, you don't just say, 'Oh, I'm going to become an actor.' Talk like that and they think you're crazy.”

Thinking Actors Crazy

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.”

World I Can Two Book Actors Acting Reader Two Days I Can Read

Author:Evan Peters

“Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.”

Actors Musician

Author:Grant-Lee Phillips

“I'm not a star, I'm an actor - there's a difference!”

Actors Stars Differences

Author:Jonathan Pryce

“My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.”

Thinking Artist Actors Opinion My Favorite

Author:Josh Peck

“When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.”

Kind Use Artist Actors Draws

Author:Josh Peck

“I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.”

Thinking Jobs Lasts Next Actors

Author:Josh Peck

“With drama, you need to be laughing, in between takes, 'cause you're going to those recesses of your soul and those dangerous parts. Normally, if you're not an actor or some crazy artist, you don't feel the need to run around in those areas. You keep them separate because it's painful.”

Ifs Needs Feels Soul Running Artist Actors Causes Laughing Crazy Dangerous Drama Areas Painful Your Soul Recess

Author:Josh Peck

“If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.”

Ifs Persons Real Actors Ability Offers

Author:Kevin Pollak

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