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“Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.”

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Author:Mary McDonnell

“I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.”

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Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.”

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Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them.”

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Author:Richard Madden

“As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“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

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

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Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“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

“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?”

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Author:Ellen Pompeo

“I want what's mine. I see other actors who are doing very interesting roles, and I just want to continue to do things that are interesting, and things that people will go see in theaters.”

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Author:Derek Luke

“Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.”

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Author:Anna Popplewell

“When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am.”

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Author:Pete Postlethwaite

“People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life and I don't have one friend who is an actor!”

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Author:Sara Paxton

“In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.”

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Author:Martha Plimpton

“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

“When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.”

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Author:Megan Fox

“The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.”

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Author:Rosamund Pike

“And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.”

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Author:Eddie Redmayne

“I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“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 think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as an artist and an actor. In that sense, it had to have helped me.”

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Author:Daniel Sunjata

“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.”

“I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.”

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Author:Ben Stiller

“I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.”

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Author:Ben Stiller

“As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people.”

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Author:Chris Sarandon

“There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.”

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Author:Josh Lucas

“There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.”

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Author:Jeremy Sisto

“So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.”

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Author:Miles Teller

“Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.”

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Author:Olivia Thirlby

“When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.”

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Author:James Franco

“For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.”

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Author:Rumer Willis

“It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to decide what you play. I don't know. I can only say this: I don't want to and have no interest in playing a plastic surgeon. That's for sure. I'm open to anything else.”

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Author:Dylan Walsh

“I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page.”

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Author:Luke Wilson

“The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.”

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Author:Margaret Whiting

“I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors - not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We're all up for grabs.”

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Author:Sonya Walger

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