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Actors Quote by Paul Dano

“Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.” quote by Paul Dano — Download Open image

“Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.”

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Of course I think it's a movie for everybody [Insane Farting Corpse], but that's probably just because it's a movie for me.

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Some projects go as you hope or imagine, and some change or reveal themselves in a different way; it depends.

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Nobody is a perfect actor.

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The better the acting is, the harder it is to see what the process is.

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If you could call me buff, my version of buff was when I finished that film [Swiss Army Man].

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The only constant I can find is hard work.

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Reading the script [Insane Farting Corpse], by page two or three, I felt that way. I thought, I'm in. It was so beautiful and…

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I went to tranny bars and kind of got used to being around that and then getting dressed up.

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