Actor Quotes

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In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed. — Richard Dreyfuss
Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent or your manager… — Dylan McDermott
As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds.… — Dylan McDermott
I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of… — Dylan McDermott
I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably… — Sam Shepard
It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and… — Sam Shepard
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too… — Kenneth Branagh
The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness. — Kenneth Branagh
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning… — Kenneth Branagh
As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my… — Lynn Redgrave
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… — Kurt Russell
I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year… — Macaulay Culkin
Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how… — James Spader
You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of… — James Spader
I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses. — Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world… — Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was… — Dermot Mulroney
I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally. — Dermot Mulroney
Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be… — Dermot Mulroney

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