Actors Quotes (page 83)

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• humanity
• grown
• human beings

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being. Aaron Paul

• character
• character actor
• character actors

I'm a character actor. Aaron Paul

• thinking
• play
• church

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it. Aaron Paul

• good
• saying
• says

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say. Alex Cox

• son
• dad
• restaurant

I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.' Robert Pattinson

• people
• play
• gangster

Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something. Robert Pattinson

• fly
• work
• city

I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache. Scott Patterson

• job
• probability
• any

I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living. Dick Van Patten

• left
• child actor
• child actors

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left. Dick Van Patten

• respect
• look
• some

When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way. Jason Patric

• talk
• back
• talks

When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back. Jason Patric

• people
• using people
• advancing

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director. Jason Patric

• business
• star
• busy

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor. Tom Courtenay

• great
• king
• holiday

My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on. Olivia Williams

• moments
• personality
• work

Yes, I'm blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not what the stereotype of the Latina woman in Hollywood is, so they didn't know where to put me. The blond hair wasn't matching. The moment I put my hair dark, it was better for my work. Sofia Vergara