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"392 Profession Quotes

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

Acting Express Great Logical
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

Acting Actor Anyone Director
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You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.

Audience Eyes Hamlet Long
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An actor should be judged by his performance only.

Actor His Judged Only
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When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.

Crazy Does Even Get
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When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.

Actor Appreciated Back Bit
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I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

Angeles English Film Going
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One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

Actor Admire Aspect Book
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I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It's more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.

Actor Basis Because Capture
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Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.
Actor Another Entertainer Know
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I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.

About Acting Any Because
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Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my bounds, I tried to control things that were out of my purview as an actor and in some cases even tried to direct my scenes because I felt I knew how they should run rather than trust the director.

Acting Actor Because Bounds
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I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.
Cast I Think Like Self
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I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

Director Filmmaking Medium View
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When I sign on for a project, I'm there to give the director all the material he or she might need to tell their story, and that's the number one priority.

Director Give He He Or She
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I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

Art Art World Because Bring
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You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.
Film Knowing NotKnowing Starting
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I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.

Actor Good GoodActor Makes
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I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me.

Like Me No-One Passionate
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My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.

Any Charlie Children Daddy
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You don't have to like an actor to do a scene with him. You don't have to like a director. But it's just better if you do. And I think, you know, you've got to begin that with respect.

Actor Begin Better Director
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I've got bits falling off me. I'm not made of rubber. That's from film stunts. Every single injury I have is related to a movie. I know that sounds fundamentally embarrassing.

Bits Embarrassing Every Falling
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I look for the role that excites me and work with whoever that director happens to be, wherever he wants to shoot the film.

Director Excites Film Happens
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'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

Also Around Complimentary Everyone
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All you owe the public is a good performance.

You owe Public Good performance
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I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

A lawyer Journalist University
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It's not really the job of a public servant to inspire, but to get the job that the people demand done. The Democrats think that if they have hope and are inspired, things will get better, but they actually won't.

Actually Better Demand Democrats
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You can't break through Hollywood formulaic points of view. I've tried, and I think I was more successful than anybody at doing it.
Anybody Break Doing Hollywood
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I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

Books Earn Horse How
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I type most of my books for the first chapter or two - I use a manual typewriter for the first 50 pages or so - and then I move to the computer. It helps me keep the work lean so I don't end up spending 10 pages describing a leaf.

Books Chapter Computer Describing
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I literally get up and get to do the one thing I dreamed about doing every day. And that is being a part of a television show and a radio show that is based in Hollywood.

About Based Being Day
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I want to continue to produce shows that directly effect change.

Change Continue Directly Effect
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Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!

Audience Bald Ball Difference
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I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

Believe Duty I Believe Love
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I can take criticisms but not compliments.

Compliments Criticisms I Can Take
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I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

Around Guitar Itself Music
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That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

Artist Attention Kind Motivation
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The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.

About Acting Also Dark
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To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.

About Built Celebrity Character
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I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

Anything Anything Else Else Funny
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When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.

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There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

Humor Acting Often Certain
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I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

Assistant Attendant Being Like
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People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

Actress Behind Easy Find
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If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Enough Good Never Publicity
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Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

Possible Good Sound Music
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I want to party in space because I make alien music.

Alien Music Party Space
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I can't talk about my singing. I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

About Describe How Inside
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Always Artist Chicks Like
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Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.
Lawyers Rogue Easily rooted Rich soil
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