#actor

When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility. ↗

— Claire Danes

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Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

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I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#big #big star #going #good #good actor

Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

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On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

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Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor. ↗

— Viola Davis

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When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way. ↗

— Viola Davis

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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage. ↗

— Warwick Davis

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A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening. ↗

— Bruce Davison

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Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part. ↗

— John Deacon

#analogy #being #best #effect #everything