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It's not a prerequisite for an actor to be obsessed about his looks. I know there are people who don't look in the mirror at all, and I'm getting there.

People Mirror Look Obsessed
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!

Right Love First Line
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.

Actor Anything Approach Because
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I am not a tout; I am an actor.

I Tout Actor Am
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So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

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As an actor, I am good at creating different characters.
Actor Different Good Creating
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I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it's fun, and that's how I grow as an actor.

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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

Actor Director Going He
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Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

Actor Applied Basically Everything
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I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.

Actor Always Been Cause
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I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

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It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.

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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

Actor Bourgeois Existence Profession
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I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

When People See Actor
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An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

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Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

Acting Actor Acts Deals
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

Actor Am Banana Figured
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You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

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I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that college is the end of education, but it isn't. The ceremony of giving you the diploma is called commencement. And that means you are fit to commence learning because you have learned hot to learn.

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What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

Important Acting Actors
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

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People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

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I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.

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When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

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To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

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I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Actor Become Comedian Excited
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I'm an actor. I love acting and being able to use my love, my passion, to also contribute to making this a better society, a better democracy, and a better country.

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But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

Actor Because Comedy Doing
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I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.

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I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

Actor Alternative Anything Anything Else
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You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

Able Acting Actor Director
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.

Actor Again Always Form
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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

Acting Actor How Idea
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As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

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Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

Actor Any Cringe Earn
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As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.

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You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.

Actor Been Better Bigger
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There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

Actor Any Continental Could
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I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

Actor Been Enjoy Getting
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Don't act like you are rich. Be yourself, not an actor.

Rich Actor Be yourself
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My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.

Actor Anything Believed Both
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When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

Actor Any Certain Certain Way
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Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.

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I've always felt like I was an actor for hire. And almost apologetic for being a woman of color, trying to stifle that voice. But I don't feel that way in Shondaland. I feel like I am accepted into a world where I'm a part of the narrative - I'm a part of it.

Accepted Actor Almost Always
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Every job I've ever gotten has transformed me in some way as an actor.
Actor Ever Every Gotten
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Vanity destroys your work. That's the one thing you have to let go of as an actor. I don't care how sexy or beautiful any woman is. At the end of the day, she has to take her makeup off. At the end of the day, she's more than just pretty.

Actor Any Beautiful Care
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As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

Actor Anything Average Exciting
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Who is an actor – a soul in a living body that is plagued with emotions. The only way to let it out is to constantly display.

Actor Living body Plagued Emotions
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