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You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.


John McEnroe

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EDDIE REDMAYNE It doesn't behoove you as an actor to sit around and worry.
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EMERIL LAGASSE I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.
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ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC Everyone who goes to a job he doesn't like is a lot weirder than I am.
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RANI MUKERJI If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know w...
C. EVERETT KOOP I'm the sort of actor who doesn't really prep a lot - I don't do a lot of research for p...
KEIR GILCHRIST A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor...
JACKI WEAVER Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and gettin...
ZACHERY TY BRYAN If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't mat...
CHRIS NOTH I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by you...
JUDD NELSON Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.
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ANTHONY T. HINCKS Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hur...
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DAVID CARRADINE You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the...
BEN CARSON When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON A lot of movies are made, but because they come to film festivals and your movie doesn't get bou...
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JACKI WEAVER There's a lot of pressure being an actor and taking on challenges that people don't expect o...
DAVID DENMAN Everyone has the opportunity to do a horror film. There's something great about it as an actor. ...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an act...
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CRAIG SHEFFER Beast Mode doesn't make excuses. It doesn't complain. Whatever you're doing, go out ther...
MATT KEMP It helps an actor an awful lot when he looks like the part. There's nothing more disconcerting, ...
PETER FALK People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't ha...
FRANK BLACK To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinven...
NEIL TENNANT New York is a great place to be as an unrepresented actor because there are so many 'open auditi...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the en...
WERNER HERZOG I have to keep working because, although I have land, I'm not cash rich and don't have the w...
MIRIAM MARGOLYES It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awfu...
CHARLIE WATTS I've been in the industry from the age of 9, so I have an agent. That's how you get audition...
CHRISTOPHER PARKER It makes my actors feel like they're creating and not just parroting the writer's words, ... So if y...
JAMES BURROWS An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better o...
PAUL LYNDE What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me i...
BRYCE COURTENAY Even though you were radiated doesn't mean you get to have that sort of power.
ERIC SAN For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and mor...
TIM CAHILL Well as I said in France I didn't get auditions, and it's very difficult to get an agent in ...
BERENICE MARLOHE The truth of the matter is, I am a black woman, and I am an actor. I don't try to get caught up ...
CONDOLA RASHAD The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn'...
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BILL BRYSON Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn...
ZHANG ZIYI If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romant...
LAURA DERN To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.
A. J. BOWEN Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It j...
LES BROWN At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay atten...
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ELDEN HENSON As you sort of go through life, you realize it's very rare to have a relationship as an actor with a...
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KING KRULE I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once t...
SOPHIE THOMPSON You might think that after 40 years of practice you wouldn't need to practice anymore, but sadly...
JOSHUA BELL As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN I'm theatrically trained. Before Vine, before any of the social media, I was an actor. I was goi...
KING BACH You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You'...
SHAUN WHITE I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big...
ERIC LEFKOFSKY You aren't allowed to ask at auditions, legally, a person's race.
DAVID HENRY HWANG The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
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JIM PARSONS Brazil doesn't get a lot of gold medals, so whenever I get a chance, everybody expects me to win...
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VIGGO MORTENSEN I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a be...
REBECCA HALL When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to ge...
JAMES FRANCO I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a t...
ERIK ESTRADA You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empo...
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GARY DAVID GOLDBERG There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourse...
TALIB KWELI It doesn't feel good when you have to struggle to get your pants on.
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JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
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JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN