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When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, 'Sexiest Man Alive,' I'm honestly going, 'Thank you. Right on.' For me, it's never canceled out anything, it's never made me go, 'Does this make me less talented of an actor?'

— Matthew McConaughey

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Even if I'm not vocally my best, if I have a head cold, as an actor, I cannot give anything less than my very, very best. There's nowhere to hide!

— Ruthie Ann Miles

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

— Matt LeBlanc

Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'

— Rip Torn

One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.

— Ben Affleck

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

— Claire Danes

Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.

— Kate Jackson

✗Opposing Perspectives

The biggest compliment I can ever get as an actor is to have someone say, 'We didn't recognize you.'

— Tim Daly

As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.

— Daniel Craig

People say to me, 'Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,' and I think, 'Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I'm actually there.' I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level.

— Mireille Enos

I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.

— Ben Affleck