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“In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.”

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Author:Diego Luna

“I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.”

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Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.”

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Author:Richard Madden

“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.”

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Author:Alessandro Nivola

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

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Author:Dean Norris

“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.”

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Author:Navid Negahban

“I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.”

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Author:Vanessa Lengies

“There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you do, and getting to take a big jump in a completely different direction.”

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Author:Anna Paquin

“Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.”

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Author:Paula Patton

“I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.”

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Author:Ryan Phillippe

“As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.”

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Author:Kelly Reilly

“I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.”

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Author:Elizabeth Reaser

“You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.”

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Author:Guy Ritchie

“I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.”

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Author:Lance Reddick

“I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.”

“As a movie-goer, I really like to watch all different kinds of movies and, as an actor, I always feel like I could do pretty much anything but a musical.”

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Author:Luke Wilson

“I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the time, so being an actor lets me live out the fantasy of living out 100,000 different lifetimes in one, without all of the repercussions.”

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Author:Mae Whitman

“An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product.”

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Author:Ron Livingston

“All my good friends are actors, really. It's different when you have a family, but they're still the people I meet most often. My best friend is Ian Hart, but then I've known him since I was five.”

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Author:David Morrissey

“I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process - who really need to do lots of internal work, so that I become merely a witness until they're ready to share.”

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Author:Joe Mantello

“Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.”

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Author:Sylvester McCoy

“The difference between a regular camera and a 3D camera, for an actor, is really no different except that the turn-arounds are longer. It takes a lot longer to set up a shot because the cinematographer is really trying to set up a whole world, so it can't be more intricate and more beautiful to the viewers, in 3D.”

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Author:Chris Zylka

“I think it's so important as an actor that you hang on to your own inner compass, because so many people want to guide you - 'This is what you should you be doing'. But I want to do different things.”

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Author:Michelle Ryan

“I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.”

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Author:Kaya Scodelario

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

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Author:Dirk Benedict

“I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working on a show with Chita Rivera. It keeps you on your toes because it's different every time.”

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Author:Terrence McNally

“I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.”

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Author:Mike Lookinland

“I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.”

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Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.”

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Author:Edi Gathegi

“Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.”

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Author:Bonnie Wright

“I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.”

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Author:Austin Peck

“It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way.”

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Author:Carey Mulligan

“What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles.”

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Author:Ruth Wilson

“If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!”

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Author:Eugene Delacroix

“I think you have to be flexible above all as an actor; different characters have different demands, actors that you work with are different in their approach, or how you get along or don't get along with them.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“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.”

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Author:Domhnall Gleeson

“I loved being on the other side of the camera and interacting with the crew. When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do.”

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Author:Guy Pearce

“I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it for an audience. The more the merrier. I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.”

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Author:Ian Mckellen

“It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.”

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Author:Michiel Huisman

“As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be Sean Penn, but I didn't have all the words to be Sean Penn. But I was trying to do something different in every role.”

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Author:Matthew Lillard

“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

“All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.”

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Author:Marcus Aurelius

“The idea is to keep reinventing yourself. Once you attain a certain status as an actor, your fans start expecting from you and you should be able to fulfill them. That's why I try to choose as many different kind of roles as I can so that my fans are not disappointed with me. It would also get boring for me as an actor to keep repeating myself.”

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Author:Arjun Rampal

“If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.”

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Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.”

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Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.”

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Author:Will Smith

“I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the privilege of exploring human nature in different ways.”

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Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Being an actor lets me be a million different things.”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“It [RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE] has definitely been the biggest learning curve for me. As an actor, whenever I start on a movie, different things that I perform in ask for different skill sets. And this one is definitely the technological side of it. You have to hit your mark. You can't weave back and forth because your nose is jutting at you in 3-D. It's really been learning how to do that and also it's exciting to be on the forefront of this technology.”

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Author:Ali Larter

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