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I had a real feeling of being fated to be an actor and do my work, and I remember so much speaking up in…

— Zoe Kazan

My acting gives me my self-worth

— Tavis Smiley

I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up…

— Claire Danes

I think of myself as an actor.

— Oliver Platt

I think that the reason I became an actor, probably, underneath it, was that I spent my life acting normal.

— Dash Mihok

Everybody perceives me because of my career that I'm a movie star, or I'm this model, but I'm still the same person I was…

— Andie MacDowell

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

— Marcia Gay Harden

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

— Peter Hedges

I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress.

— Luise Rainer

I don't define myself as an actor at all. Nor is that my greatest passion in life by any stretch of the imagination.

— Shenae Grimes

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I…

— Robert De Niro

Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.

— Keri Russell