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“Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.”

“I hope to become an actor who succeed not from how I look, but my talent.”

Looks Actors Talent Succeed

Author:Kim Kyu-jong

“When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.”

Different Young Actors Talent Young Actors

Author:Dirk Benedict

“Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.”

Feels Whole Humanity Order Actors Talent Poet Waste Musician Obligation Painter Artistic Perceive Vocation Neighbour Sculptors

Author:Pope John Paul II

“With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.”

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Author:Elia Kazan

“Actors already striving in the theatre wouldn't dream of putting themselves on these shows; it means that only about 10% of the talent out there is being auditioned for parts.”

Mean Shows Dream Actors Talent Strive Theatre

Author:Elaine Paige

“I wouldn't call myself an actor or a singer for that matter, just a journeyman. [...] I feel I must have a talent somewhere for doing something but I'm still not terribly sure what it is. I suppose it's a talent for being myself.”

Feels Stills Matter Actors Talent Singers Being Myself

Book:Ronnie

Source: Ronnie

“When you use the same actors a lot, you get to know them and you realize that one movie can't explore all the talent that they have. You really have to give them several different kinds of roles, in completely different movies, to push them and to push yourself.”

Knows Giving Kind Different Use Actors Realizing Roles Talent Different Kinds Push Yourself

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.”

Shows Actors Opportunity Sides Talent Dramatic Irresistible

Author:Elizabeth Banks

“The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.”

Firsts Home Actors Talent Performances Theatre Memorable Great Talent

Author:Kevin Spacey

“Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.”

Ifs Believe Shows Actors Talent Despair Don't Believe Show Business Believe You Can I Don't Believe You

Book:Ruth Gordon, an open book

Source: Ruth Gordon, an open book

“Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.”

Humans Use Actors Acting Talent Human Experience

Book:Ruth Gordon, an open book

Source: Ruth Gordon, an open book

“It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.”

Matter Reality Joy Actors Difficult Plans Talent No Matter What Luck Contribution Nerves

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. Its not really anything; its just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.”

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“There is a bit of a once a soap actor always a soap actor thing, but I do think people still recognise talent. If youre good at something, then people have no choice but to accept it.”

People Ifs Thinking Stills Choices Actors Bits Accepting Talent Soap Recognise

Author:Judi Shekoni

“I wanted to be an actor and I wanted to be a performer. Like Hugh [Grant] said earlier, we might all have this weird gene. Hopefully I will continue to have the talent to allow that gene to play itself out for as long as it can.”

Long Said Play Might Wanted Actors Talent Hopefully Grants Performers Genes

Author:Mandy Moore

“I understand that actors lose their looks, they change over time, but people don't lose their talent. I think that, as people get older and the people who make the decisions get older, they don't like hiring people much older than them because it reminds them of their fathers, and they don't like telling people older than them what to do. It makes them uncomfortable. I think that happens a lot.”

People Thinking Looks Happens Actors Father Loses Decision Talent Uncomfortable Hiring Changes Over Time

Author:Kurt Fuller