Actor Quotes
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I always wanted to be an actor.
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It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.
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My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.
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After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.
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I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.
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Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.
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Be in the moment as an actor and as a human being, and you're going to be happy.
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When I came to Mumbai from Dubai to become an actor, I used to entertain people at parties by showing some card tricks.
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I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.
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I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.
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This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.
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Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.
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Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
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If you're doing things that you don't want to be doing or you're working with people who aren't making you better and you're not learning, if things aren't challenging you, you could be wasting your time. You might be making some money, but you might not be improving as an actor.
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I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.
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Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
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With the type of actor I am, which includes really diving into a role and making it as real as possible, there's nothing better than working in a real environment on location. It forces you to feel what the character's feeling, and it allows you to live in the space of the character.
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All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
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I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.
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If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.
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As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
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Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.
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I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
