Actor Quotes
-
I'm a physical actor in that I start with a physical sketch of the character. I find it easier to find inspiration from the outside in. If I find the character's tensions and the way he carries himself or looks, that's going to affect how I talk. So that's how I start to create that person.
-
I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.
-
I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.
-
I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.
-
An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
-
I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.
-
I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.
-
I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
-
Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words... I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
-
I consider myself as a director's actor, so I'm open to work with filmmakers from across the country and even abroad.
-
Knowing that my granddad was a highly respected actor wasn't necessarily intimidating, but it definitely meant there was always a pressure to live up to his reputation. I think that's why acting wasn't something I even considered doing, as a kid.
-
I love working with actors, and it's great that I'm an actor myself. I know how I like to be directed and how I like to be talked to.
-
My acting experience has been a benefit. What I learned from directors is how to listen to and talk with actors. I know how they think and what they need.
-
Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series in Andy Griffith Show in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.
-
It's true to say that I'm a budding young actor. But I'd rather get my name out there because of my acting rather than who I'm being photographed with.
-
That's really just the worst part of life really, you get bracketed somewhere and the next thing you know people are saying, 'No. No. That's not the type. Get me so and so.' I'm not a type. I'm an actor.
-
I guess Richard Pryor was that good. I never saw him in a theater, but I imagine he was that good, because he was such a phenomenal actor.
-
The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get wonderful cooperation out of the lens if you are true, but God help you if you are not.
-
Failure is always present as an actor. I make my living by taking chances. If I'm not risking something, then I'm not doing my job, so I'm constantly failing. In fact, I'm trying to fail bigger. I try to focus on the positive, the moment, and try to realize where I'm at in an attempt to understand the failure.
-
Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
-
That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that.
-
Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.
-
I think you get the most honest performances when an actor shows up to set with their lines memorized. That's a very important thing that a lot of people seem to forget.
-
You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.
