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At every point in time as an actor, ensure you put in your best in whatever you do.
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Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

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I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.

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The role of an actor is to make every character believable.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

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In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

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I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.

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Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.

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What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire.

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Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
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I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

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A lot of people say, 'What's the worst part about being an actor?' And the worst part is that you're not a musician.

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I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.
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I just think the less you know about an actor, the more serious you'll take them as an actor because they will disappear a little bit.

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I think actors get too comfortable. I like being uncomfortable as an actor because it keeps you alive. I don't know, I think it's important.

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My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor.

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My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.

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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

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There is no legitimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.

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If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.

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The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

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As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with.

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To go from playing Jack Startz in 'Behind the Candelabra' to playing JFK in the same year, I have now operated at the far ends of my range as an actor.

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That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

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Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
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Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to write first thing in the morning, every day. But sometimes I'm called to set before the sun comes up, or I've worked late the night before, or I'm on a plane.

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An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

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It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

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I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

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Stories about race and identity pique my interest for obvious reasons. That's in my body, my brain, my history, my memories - it's all part of my toolbox as an actor.

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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

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Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

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Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.

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To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

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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.

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An actor should be judged by his performance only.

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A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.

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When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

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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.

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You work really hard to make it, and maybe you get some acclaim, but then you realize there are certain limitations as an actor.

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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.
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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.

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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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Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

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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.

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I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it.

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An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

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