I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
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Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.
quote by Amitabh Bachchan
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The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.
quote by Stella Adler
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Behind the Scenes
The actor struts his little hour,
Between the limelight and the band;
The public feel the actor's power,
Yet nothing do they understand
Of all the touches here and there
That make or mar the actor's part,
They never see, beneath the glare,
The artist striving after art.
To them it seems a labour slight
Where nought of study intervenes;
You see it in another light
When once you've been behind the scenes.
For though the actor at his best
Is, like a poet, born not made,
He still must study with a zest
And practise hard to learn his trade.
So, whether on the actor's form
The stately robes of Hamlet sit,
Or as Macbeth he rave and storm,
Or plays burlesque to please the pit,
'Tis each and all a work of art,
That constant care and practice means --
The actor who creates a part
Has done his work behind the scenes.
poem by Andrew Barton Paterson
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
quote by Walter Koenig
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All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.
quote by Mickey Rourke
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I think basically an actor is a salesman.
quote by Paul Lynde
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Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.
quote by Joe Morton
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Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
quote by Quentin Tarantino
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Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break.
quote by Jeff Bridges
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This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.
quote by Jon Bon Jovi
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The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.
quote by William Friedkin
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I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.
quote by Kent McCord
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Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
quote by Jack Nicholson
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Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.
quote by Louise Brooks
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Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
quote by Dennis Hopper
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I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.
quote by Robert Englund
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My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
quote by Griffin Dunne
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When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.
quote by David Antin
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I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
quote by Bela Lugosi
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An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.
quote by Arthur Lowe
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