I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.
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Related As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my... DYLAN MCDERMOTT One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet abo... JASON RITTER There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then sell... CLINT EASTWOOD And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you'r... CLINT HOWARD The negativity will always be there. I think that's for any actress or actor. But I think you... AMY JACKSON You've got to not care about what people think. You learn that as an actor. If you get a bad rev... MARTIN HENDERSON The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is someth... RANBIR KAPOOR I think every film actor secretly wants to be a rock star as well; just that part of the job which r... BEN BARNES It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written an... PADDY CONSIDINE As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard ... TRAVIS FIMMEL Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Ac... ALAN RICKMAN I want diversity in what I do, as that's what helps you in the long term. It's more fulfilli... THEO JAMES I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively.... K'NAAN Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head p... OWAIN YEOMAN I've had no helping hand in Hollywood. But in general, I've found that when it comes to gett... ISLA FISHER Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a... DAMIAN LEWIS I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it... SPIKE JONZE I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of va... LIEV SCHREIBER It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for... OMAR DORSEY I love the powerful woman who's complicated. There's no push to be one thing or another thin... AJA NAOMI KING It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to de... DYLAN WALSH When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and ... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, th... GIORGIO ARMANI Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make i... SAM CLAFLIN As an actor, you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life t... MICHELLE FAIRLEY I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the pas... MARTIN YAN You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especial... AARON STANFORD It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want... JAMES NORTON As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about su... EDDIE REDMAYNE My hope, my real hope, is that whatever you hold in your heart, whatever you truly believe, and you&... JOE CARNAHAN Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always ... MATT DILLON Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU When people see my makeup, they think all types of crazy things that I'm doing to my skin, but i... NICKI MINAJ When you label someone 'up and coming' or 'the new breakout,' there's this kind ... RUTH NEGGA It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don't know what's coming and you sort of... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy,... JOHN MCCAIN Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and gettin... ZACHERY TY BRYAN I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you we... VINCENT CASSEL There's nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.'... MARGOT ROBBIE If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't thi... JENNA USHKOWITZ I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects yo... DIANNA AGRON No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you've got a series, you never do. Som... DAVID MORSE When you're an actor in grade school, high school, college, whatever, you start to realize what ... BRYAN CRANSTON Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think... KATE ASHFIELD There's a cumulative effect to getting good parts as a freelance actor, because you're only ... BRUCE MCGILL You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever... GREG RUSEDSKI Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's th... PAUL FEIG I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or ... OWAIN YEOMAN What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which i... ALFIE ALLEN I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does he... RAHUL DRAVID To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in t... ROBERT CARLYLE I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I... MAX IRONS I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need t... BRYAN CRANSTON You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've be... KEANU REEVES You go on a million auditions anyway as an actor, and one out of a hundred, you get. It's a hard... MORENA BACCARIN It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right i... EMILY WATSON I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revi... ABHISHEK BACHCHAN What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's no... MARTIN SHORT I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b... BEN SCHNETZER You know, I just tend to grow my beard out for 'Parks and Rec.' As an actor it's always ... CHRIS PRATT It's such a stressful environment, I find, being an actor, being put in the chair and 'Touch... PADDY CONSIDINE When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you ... CHRIS LILLEY And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had.... GLENN TIPTON If you do things to the limit, and don't purposely go over that limit, then I think it's fin... MICHAEL SCHUMACHER Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more success... SIMONE BILES There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six... OLESYA RULIN Success is when you see something, and you say, 'I want to do that,' and then you do it. It&... ALESSIA CARA It's kind of like when you have guests coming over to your house, and you haven't really pic... CHARLES SOULE I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either lov... EMINEM You always have to have a bit of fun if somebody is dead in a scene. That's a red rag to a bull ... LIAM CUNNINGHAM I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what ot... FRANCESCA ANNIS As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day... ORLANDO BLOOM I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch ... ADAM BALDWIN I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the e... AUSTIN PECK There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you... RANDY PAUSCH We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American t... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning buil... DYLAN MCDERMOTT When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You k... NANCY REAGAN If you want to be an actor, you should just get out there and do it. I don't go for the approach... BILL NUNN I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can'... DAMIEN HIRST Hmm... my bedroom's really messy. It's probably the messiest bedroom you could ever think of... PIXIE LOTT I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, '... ZACH GALIFIANAKIS Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for... ROBERT M. PIRSIG Growing up, I wish I hadn't tried so hard to fit in. I'd tell myself to just embrace what yo... SHAY MITCHELL I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, bu... JENNIFER LOPEZ I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that&... T. C. BOYLE Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decis... SYDNEY POLLACK Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed ... CHRISTOPHER MELONI When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this fun... JILL SOLOWAY With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a pers... CHRIS BROWN I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the pe... JOHNNY DEPP Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you'... ALFRED MOLINA As an actor, whether you look good or you don't, it's still about what you look like: Whethe... CHERRY JONES I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three fee... SCOTT PATTERSON
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TED LANGE I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me. TED LANGE Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film. TED LANGE One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff. TED LANGE I talk to the universe all the time. TED LANGE I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare. TED LANGE I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life. TED LANGE To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; ... TED LANGE Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling. TED LANGE I have to reinvent myself. TED KULONGOSKI Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks. TED KULONGOSKI I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come w... 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TED KOTCHEFF Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what ... TED KOTCHEFF When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity. TED KOTCHEFF But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood. TED KOTCHEFF I'm not an easygoing guy as a director. TED KOTCHEFF I have a bad reputation for being temperamental. TED KOTCHEFF When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable. TED KOTCHEFF Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of ... TED KOTCHEFF There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond... TED KOPPEL I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its ... TED KOPPEL More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many ... TED KOPPEL My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-develope... TED KOPPEL Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay... TED KOPPEL My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and ... TED KOPPEL The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do. TED KOPPEL I think we're glazing eyes all across America. TED KOPPEL I have the necessary lack of tact. TED KOPPEL There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. ... TED KOPPEL In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen. TED KOPPEL History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. TED KOPPEL Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not ... TED KOPPEL People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the '... TED KOPPEL There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard. TED KNIGHT Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy. TED KNIGHT People send me CDs all the time because I love music. It's great. I listen to them in my dressin... TED KING I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ... TED KING I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on. TED KING I collect LPs, but only if they're pretty high quality. I don't go back and dig through the ... TED KING The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad. TED HUGHES It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. TED HUGHES What happens in the heart simply happens. TED HUGHES We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and ... TED ENGSTROM Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days. TED ENGSTROM The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory. TED ENGSTROM What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the tim... TED ENGSTROM Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes ... TED ENGSTROM The whole of our national sport is not doing very well. TED DEXTER Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia. TED DEXTER I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Ven... TED DEXTER Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I ... TED DEXTER Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down. TED DEXTER For those whose lives have been turned upside down by Chinese drywall, we're trying to give them... TED DEUTCH We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people. TED DEUTCH Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not ... TED DEUTCH When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health in... TED DEUTCH Kids from financially distressed households are twice as likely to have to repeat a grade and more t... TED DEUTCH We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating. TED DEUTCH Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fa... TED DEUTCH We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans. TED DEUTCH It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them h... TED DEUTCH Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, and yet so many Americans ar... TED DEUTCH I have an open door to meet with my constituents and that I work hard to respond to their needs, and... TED DEUTCH We must not allow the Iranian regime to use the nation's vast energy resource as a financial pip... TED DEUTCH I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast... TED DEUTCH This OCCUPIED amendment, this constitutional amendment, would overturn Citizens United. It would mak... TED DEUTCH Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons. TED DEUTCH Ultimately, the goal of sanctions is to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Iranians to such a l... TED DEUTCH As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide just... TED DEUTCH It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century wo... TED DEUTCH From the preemptive strike that destroyed Egypt's air force during the Six-Day War, to the darin... TED DEUTCH I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it... TED DEUTCH I believe we're stronger when we speak loudly and unapologetically for human rights; when we sta... TED DEUTCH For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discr... TED DEUTCH Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs ... TED DEUTCH It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place. TED DEUTCH There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again. TED DEMME The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two f... TED DEMME That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produ... TED DEMME I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince. TED DEMME I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film. TED DEMME I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, beca... TED DEMME And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my fav... TED DEMME I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish ano... TED DEMME I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love sto... TED DEMME What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, li... TED DEMME The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curio... TED DEMME But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though... TED DEMME You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some dire... TED DEMME My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left ho... TED DEKKER I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my o... TED DEKKER For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking ... TED DEKKER I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by ou... TED DEKKER I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novel... TED DEKKER I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I ... TED DEKKER My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What th... TED DEKKER All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, ... TED DEKKER My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's und... TED DEKKER It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the d... TED DEKKER My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My r... TED DEKKER Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, ... TED DEKKER If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this s... TED DEKKER I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by ou... TED DEKKER What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. Th... TED DEKKER When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle bet... TED DEKKER My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantas... TED DEKKER For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking ... TED DEKKER Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality... TED DEKKER Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high ... TED DEKKER While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving bey... TED DEKKER The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, a... TED DEKKER My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been ... TED DEKKER If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and i... TED DEKKER It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that da... TED DEKKER Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What... TED DEKKER I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to ... TED CRUZ When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meani... TED CRUZ The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds. TED CRUZ We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to recl... TED CRUZ I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. TED CRUZ This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more a... TED CRUZ I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the script... TED CRUZ I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because y... TED CRUZ If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you. TED CRUZ It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten ... TED CRUZ I was so horrifically bad at tennis. TED CRUZ I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan. TED CRUZ In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative. TED CRUZ I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make. TED CRUZ Stopping bad things is a significant public service. TED CRUZ The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world... TED CRUZ When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fi... TED CHIANG I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sol... TED CHIANG We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology. TED CHIANG I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to b... TED CHIANG The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhal... TED CHIANG