The beauty about being a natural actor is just being yourself without getting caught up with how you think a role should be performed. The horror many novices face is not knowing that the natural counts much more than the pretention of being somebody else. The more natural you are then the more convincing the interpreted role will be. The horror many professionals face is that pretending to be natural eventually catches up with them.
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Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid,.. That's not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up.
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You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction.
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As an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.
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Actors are willing to give their entire lives to a moment--to that line, that laugh, that gesture, or that interpretation that will stir the audience's soul.
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Actors are beings who have tasted life's nectar in that crystal moment when they poured out their creative spirit and touched another's heart.
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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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The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
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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.
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.. And there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
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I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits
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If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion
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I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!
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Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
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An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
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An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
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The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.
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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. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.
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Dad, I really want to become an actor, but if this is what it's all about, I don't want to do it.
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Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.
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