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I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.


Saoirse Ronan
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I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic.


Mario Lopez
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People always ask me, 'Hey, what's Matt Damon like?' He's just a dude, just a really good person and one hell of an actor.
Michael Kelly
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I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it's hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere.
Charlie Hunnam
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I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet on TV, you go, 'Why does that person need such a large entourage?' And then you realize that every single person there has a role to play.
Lupita Nyong'o
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But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.
Ray Walston
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He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
Sarah Bernhardt
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There are some things that as an actor scare you, and if you can capture that fear on screen, it will be interesting.
Alice Lowe
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In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen.


Eric Braeden
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And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.


Scott Speedman
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Look at a guy like Ian McKellen, who is eighty or whatever, and he's just loving his work, and you can see that in the work. That defines what type of actor you are. And what kind of people want to work with you. And whether you can do this job for a long, long time.
Jason Clarke
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
Callie Khouri
It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.
Giancarlo Esposito
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The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it.
George Clooney
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I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me.
Ester Dean
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As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.
Domhnall Gleeson
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It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.


Miranda Otto
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My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.
Richard Wilson
Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers.
Timothy Olyphant
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I am the kind of actor who will do just about anything.


Chris Bauer
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