The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
quote by Meryl Streep
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The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.
quote by Terrence Howard
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There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act.
quote by Cuba Gooding Jr.
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When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
quote by Pablo Picasso
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And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.
quote by Rene Auberjonois
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The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.
quote by Richard Wilson
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That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.
quote by Bruce Boxleitner
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Draanen
She wants to know more about this boy,
He wants to know more about this girl,
And like what is seen around us in the name of modern society!
But i am Draanen in the land of joy.
A random love,
A random poem,
A random story,
A random muse,
And like the joy of your heart!
But falling in love is part of us on this earth.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.
quote by Leonardo DiCaprio
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I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.
quote by Thandie Newton
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Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
quote by Anthony Powell
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
quote by Natalie Wood
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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.
quote by Alec Guinness
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.
quote by Thomas Jane
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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.
quote by Alec Guinness
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I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.
quote by Sally Field
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Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.
quote by Audrey Meadows
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Among the ropes of lie
A silent actor standing
Naked between the acts
Dragged out of a pack of cards
To deliver the paper speech
To raise his glass and toast
To nothing behind the curtain's outreach
And a playwright anonymous
With the hand on his forehead
Wondering about the rules of writing
The part of the text secretly overheard
But never whispered to the main and side roles
And a beautiful child playing by his side
Completely lost in translation
His future killed by error corrections
I wonder how long an acrobat world can sway
Among the ropes of its own lie
©Miroslava Odalovic
poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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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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The old aping youth
As an actor, you can don any roles:
A lover, a cobbler or a robber;
Don't act as a youth, a half of your age.
You are awkward irritate our eyes.
20.09.2012
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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