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"When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it."
"Every actor is riddled with insecurity, of course. But weirdly, I don't really find that I'd be daunted with taking on roles or anything."
"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."
"T.V.s weird because its both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process."
"For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality."
"Usually I like to make my movies from start to finish in chronological order. As a filmmaker it lets me be able to direct my actors and tell them where exactly they are and go with progression."
"Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?"
"There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want."
"It seems to me that everybody who's a success has made a decision to put themselves in a situation that eats away at their privacy. Their hours just don't end. Now, with actors it's extreme, because their privacy is almost nonexistent."
"I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day."
"I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet."
"Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with."
"Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time."
"I feel like in Australia, all the films I've done, we're all equal moving parts in this equation of making the film - an actor is another crew member, essentially."
"For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all."
"He [Kenneth Branagh] is the nicest guy. He is absolutely fantastic. Hes really down to earth, really friendly, and he has a great sense of humor. I really liked working with him. Hes a fantastic actor as well. Theres such a presence about him."
"Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another."
"My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor."
"In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful."
"I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic."
