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Top 20 Eric Balfour Quotes (2025 Update)

Eric Balfour Quote: “As an artist, you’re always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven’t done before, and push your boundaries.”

1. “As an artist, you’re always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven’t done before, and push your boundaries.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.”

2. “As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “I’m not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.”

3. “I’m not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “Unless you’re a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and episode, and then leaves. I’d much rather produce television and occasionally direct an episode of a show I’m producing, then just come in as an outside director.”

4. “Unless you’re a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and episode, and then leaves. I’d much rather produce television and occasionally direct an episode of a show I’m producing, then just come in as an outside director.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “I’d love to say that every move I make is completely calculated and I’m sitting on a pile of scripts, sifting through them for the perfect role, but the fact is that there are a lot of talented people out there and there’s a lot of competition in our business.”

5. “I’d love to say that every move I make is completely calculated and I’m sitting on a pile of scripts, sifting through them for the perfect role, but the fact is that there are a lot of talented people out there and there’s a lot of competition in our business.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “I believe in my own abilities and my future enough that I will not take a job that could hurt the integrity of my long-term career.”

6. “I believe in my own abilities and my future enough that I will not take a job that could hurt the integrity of my long-term career.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “If you felt like you’ve done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it’s probably time to hang up your spurs because there’s not much else to do.”

7. “If you felt like you’ve done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it’s probably time to hang up your spurs because there’s not much else to do.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “The beauty of every experience you have is that hopefully you’ll learn something from it.”

8. “The beauty of every experience you have is that hopefully you’ll learn something from it.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.”

9. “I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “The minute you try to do something that is not true to you, is not something that you really know about, and is not a lifestyle or world that you live in or can relate to, it’s going to come off as false.”

10. “The minute you try to do something that is not true to you, is not something that you really know about, and is not a lifestyle or world that you live in or can relate to, it’s going to come off as false.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “As an actor, I’ve always paid attention on sets. I’ve always watched, learned and listened, and you start to see things differently. You always leave yourself an out.”

11. “As an actor, I’ve always paid attention on sets. I’ve always watched, learned and listened, and you start to see things differently. You always leave yourself an out.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.”

12. “As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “Directing is something that I’d been wanting and hoping to do, as I’ve grown into myself.”

13. “Directing is something that I’d been wanting and hoping to do, as I’ve grown into myself.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “There are always going to be people who are more famous and more bankable than you, and then conversely, you may be more famous and more bankable than other people. But, there was a time that I would take jobs because they were there.”

14. “There are always going to be people who are more famous and more bankable than you, and then conversely, you may be more famous and more bankable than other people. But, there was a time that I would take jobs because they were there.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “At a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don’t have to worry about it. They can just go for it because they believe in themselves.”

15. “At a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don’t have to worry about it. They can just go for it because they believe in themselves.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “A lot of why we become actors is to fill a void that we have and a part of that void is to live out and tell stories that we’ve lived or that we hope would have been different in our own lives.”

16. “A lot of why we become actors is to fill a void that we have and a part of that void is to live out and tell stories that we’ve lived or that we hope would have been different in our own lives.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “Nothing is worse for me, as an actor, than when I walk on a set and the director goes, “Okay, you’re going to be standing here, the other person is going to be standing here, and you’re going to move to there and then do the scene.” That doesn’t help actors.”

17. “Nothing is worse for me, as an actor, than when I walk on a set and the director goes, “Okay, you’re going to be standing here, the other person is going to be standing here, and you’re going to move to there and then do the scene.” That doesn’t help actors.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “I’ve had the experience of seeing what makes life easier for an actor and for the crew, and what makes it feel bogged down and challenging. We’re all really fortunate that we get to make our living as artists.”

18. “I’ve had the experience of seeing what makes life easier for an actor and for the crew, and what makes it feel bogged down and challenging. We’re all really fortunate that we get to make our living as artists.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.”

19. “The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you have more control. On television, the producers are the creative forces behind it. Directors come and go on television.”

20. “I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you have more control. On television, the producers are the creative forces behind it. Directors come and go on television.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “I actually like acting in things that I’m directing because I’m able to control the tone of how a scene may go and I know, very clearly, what I want from myself in that scene and what I need, as far as from a directorial standpoint.”

21. “I actually like acting in things that I’m directing because I’m able to control the tone of how a scene may go and I know, very clearly, what I want from myself in that scene and what I need, as far as from a directorial standpoint.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “As a director, you want to be really connected to every part of your set, from your actors all the way to your camera operators. Everybody is a part of the creative process, and if they feel like they’re part of a team versus just being a tool, they’re going to give you something special.”

22. “As a director, you want to be really connected to every part of your set, from your actors all the way to your camera operators. Everybody is a part of the creative process, and if they feel like they’re part of a team versus just being a tool, they’re going to give you something special.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “One of the greatest things I’ve learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.”

23. “One of the greatest things I’ve learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.”

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Eric Balfour Quote: “Skyline is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The writers did an amazing job of creating a new take at how life from other planets come and plan to invade Earth.”

24. “Skyline is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The writers did an amazing job of creating a new take at how life from other planets come and plan to invade Earth.”

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