#actor

I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#added #being #doing #extra #helped

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? ↗

— David McCullough

#deciding #factor #history #how #human

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#actress #create #distinctive #every #passion

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 to call you. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#agent #around #call #career #life

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child. ↗

— Roddy McDowall

#act #actor #because #child #did

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job. ↗

— Roddy McDowall

#always #another #disease #get #i

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#away #embrace #emotions #job #life

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#denzel #denzel washington #does #find #foster

In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#always #believed #brother #career #face

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#business #certain #diplomat #expectations #just