As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.
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Related As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kin... JAMES FRANCO Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from m... JAMIE LEE CURTIS In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor. JAMES BADGE DALE I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who o... DWAYNE JOHNSON In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre m... JOSHUA LEONARD The thing that attracted me to 'CSI' is that these guys are always professional, but underne... PAUL GUILFOYLE I love the feeling of having as close to a steady job as you can ever have as an actor. I'm not ... JASON RITTER As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most chan... SIGOURNEY WEAVER Look, when people came after me for doing 'Indecent Proposal' or 'Disclosure,' I thought, 'Ridiculou... DEMI MOORE Fame is part of me and my life as an actor. I enjoy the creative aspects of my life as an actor. I e... MATT DILLON For me, as an actor, going from TV to film was interesting because TV and film are two very differen... AERIEL MIRANDA Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons... BRUCE DAVISON The myth that your waiter in New York is an actor is true. It's a very difficult, competitive busine... CAROL GOODHEART I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an act... AMITABH BACHCHAN As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a... RANDALL PARK For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts ... TAYLOR SCHILLING The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go complet... ZACHARY QUINTO Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to c... KEVIN DURAND Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as ... RICHARD MADDEN So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to ... PATRICK J. ADAMS An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank ca... ARTHUR LOWE A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological... ROBERT CARLYLE So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for m... IAN MCKELLEN I think that the worst thing as an actor is to fall into a monotony with characters. JORDAN GAVARIS I did not know anything about his history as an actor in New York. He was a total stranger to me. He... DENNIS STOCK Take these broken wings and learn to fly. PAUL MCCARTNEY Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to ... WALTER KOENIG Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. ... AMITABH BACHCHAN Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole. JULIETTE LEWIS I think that the more success you have as an actor, I think, the greatest advantage of being success... CATHERINE ZETA-JONES In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in b... NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especial... AARON STANFORD I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the ligh... JOEL EDGERTON My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. ... CHARLES DANCE The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my ... ERIC STONESTREET I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to b... DAVID SUCHET TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided t... RAM KAPOOR I worked with Jackie Chan for a long time, and seeing how much pain he's in, I realized that tha... DANIEL WU I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just try... RYAN GOSLING My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests m... VIDYA BALAN This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more danger... LEONARDO DICAPRIO People refer to me as part of the MCU, as opposed to just being this actor. Honestly, it's an ho... JACOB BATALON That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries i... ELISABETH HARNOIS Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man&... C. THOMAS HOWELL You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've be... KEANU REEVES There are certain sacrifices that you make, and you feel like the only compensation you have as an a... DAVID SCHWIMMER It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just ... BEN KINGSLEY 'The Hulk' was the beginning of me, a platform as an actor to grow. LOU FERRIGNO My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ir... ROBERT GUILLAUME As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ... SAM PALLADIO Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous. STELLA ADLER Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a vi... JOHN FORSYTHE The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA It is fun to see girls going mad about me or dancing around to get one glimpse of me. These are majo... EMRAAN HASHMI That was a lot of fun as an actor to play with that much prosthetic. It allowed me to tap into the r... RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul. MERYL STREEP Lying about one's sexuality seems to be one of the ridiculous rules of what constitutes being a ... BEN DANIELS I believe that the most important thing for a couple of any sort, to realize in their relationship w... C. JOYBELL C. The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the ba... MANU BENNETT I think I'm a better collaborator, in seeing the bigger picture and trying to just help that, an... RAY MCKINNON i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL I always thought on my own that what is a huge part of being an actor, or what made me a better acto... DOMINIK GARCIA-LORIDO In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his b... WENTWORTH MILLER But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in ge... DANNY MCBRIDE I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor.... SPALDING GRAY I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets... DANIEL SUNJATA I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low. TOM HIDDLESTON Once I had kids, my life with them became so significant, ... So something else has to really be imp... JODIE FOSTER Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only int... DEREK JACOBI For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a charact... NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to g... ABHISHEK BACHCHAN 'Quantum Leap' gave me a huge opportunity as an actor. The nature of the role and it's d... SCOTT BAKULA As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not... ROBERT REDFORD I enjoy dramatic narration, of course, because I'm an actor and I started as an actor. But I lov... PETER CULLEN Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time tr... SEBASTIAN KOCH Being a woman, an actor in Hollywood, I know that there are certain parts I won't often get a ch... ERIN WAY I didn't always dream of being an actor - I started out as an assistant director, so doing things aw... AJAY DEVGAN In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;... C. JOYBELL C. As a human being, you are certainly entitled to your own opinion. It's just that you're blown out of... TONI COLLETTE The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore.... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and im... JAMES DEAN I'm not as enamored with actors as I am with musicians, especially like these guys, ... These are so... KEVIN BACON Were you there?” She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a child.” �... FRANCINE RIVERS I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and unco... DAVID SCHWIMMER Instead, every precaution was taken not to violate his rights. Remember, many administrators have no... JAMES C. DOBSON When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voic... DAVID SUCHET My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespeare... ARMAND ASSANTE It's not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel tha... PARK BO-GUM she said. ''I'm working as an actor, not as a waitress. I have a job I love, and we're doing really ... CALLIE THORNE I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself.... RANDY HARRISON Comedy is far more difficult, as it involves improvisation and impromptu acting, and as an actor, th... DIVYANKA TRIPATHI When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that... DAVID ANTIN As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life th... MICHELLE FAIRLEY My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed ... CARL WEATHERS Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW As an actor, it's fun to play the 'want what you can't have' aspect of the relationship. MICHAEL VARTAN And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor. TED SHACKELFORD
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GOSSIP A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message alm... A. J. GOSSIP Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 The very Nazis look at you with wonde... A. J. GOSSIP Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearm... A. J. GOSSIP Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525 After Calvary, God has the right to be trusted... A. J. GOSSIP Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 In prayer we ... A. J. GOSSIP Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearm... A. J. GOSSIP We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious secon... A. J. GOSSIP A century or so since, they spoke of sharing our Lord with the heathen, and the world rocked with la... A. J. GOSSIP Good Friday Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 Who was it that set up t... A. J. GOSSIP Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100 What exactly has Christ done for you? W... A. J. GOSSIP Feast of James the Apostle We have all been inoculated with Christianity, and are never likely t... A. J. GOSSIP Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Fou... A. J. GOSSIP Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 God gave the prophecies, not to gratify men's... A. J. GOSSIP This insensibility of ours is a bad symptom. For one thing, it implies that we have no spiritual amb... A. J. GOSSIP If people gathered to a political meeting, and the chief speaker spoke to them only for some quarter... A. J. GOSSIP Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885 We... A. J. GOSSIP Is it unfair to suggest that, in some of us at least, [Christianity] hasn't fully worked so far simp... A. J. GOSSIP Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711 When we look at the history of th... A. J. GOSSIP Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 You and I drift on through the years du... A. J. GOSSIP Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer ... A. J. GOSSIP God, as we know Him, is a gift to us from Christ. A. J. GOSSIP Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 You, too, are called to be an open letter,... A. J. GOSSIP He hits them a long way. I wish I could, just one time, know how that feels like. He hits them as fa... A. J. PIERZYNSKI The rings are great. We can now put last year behind us and move on. After tomorrow hopefully all th... A. J. PIERZYNSKI It's the hardest by a long shot. You recalibrate yourself. A. J. KITT Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it A. J. MUSTE The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he fi... A. J. LIEBLING It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the o... A. J. LIEBLING The way to write is well, and how is your own business. A. J. LIEBLING I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy. A. J. LIEBLING Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is sol... A. J. LIEBLING An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. A. J. LIEBLING I didn't take any exception to it. It wasn't a big deal. It's part of it. Whatever. A. J. PIERZYNSKI Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. A. J. LIEBLING The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible... A. J. LIEBLING Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred... A. J. LIEBLING I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I... A. J. MCLEAN If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I'd consider i... J. A. KONRATH The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w... ELIZABETH BOWEN I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road. ELIZABETH BOWEN Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. ELIZABETH BOWEN Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our heart... ELIZABETH BOWEN Education is not so important as people think. ELIZABETH BOWEN Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. ELIZABETH BOWEN