Actor Quotes
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When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.
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I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
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I'm shy. People get confused. They think as an actor you can get up and be confident on the screen. Why aren't you like this in normal life? Why can't you act in your social life? 'Because I can't!'
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I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
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I think there's actually a benefit to working with teen actors: they've got such boundless energy, and everybody is willing to try different things.
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Work always comes first as an actor.
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You don't stop when a musical number comes up and do the number and then take up the scene where you left off. It all moves forward. Your work as an actor was part of your work as a dancer as well. It was dialogue through movement.
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
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I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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George Clooney is a super-human, he's just such an amazing human being, he taught me how to be a better person and a better actor!
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I cannot expect actor Prakash Raj, who is versatile across languages, to express solidarity with a cause.
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Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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I think that, as an actor, you have to break out eventually, and if you do it properly, it can be something that's positive.
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I look at everything I’ve done critically - but I think that’s the job of an actor. If you ever sit on your laurels or think that you’re good - in a way, I don’t then think you’re pushing yourself.
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I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Jason Alexander is a committed actor, he went from working on a show about nothing to actually doing nothing.
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.
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An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
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Muhlenberg is the school that made me and shaped me into the actor I am today.
